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Health-related incentives to reward effort or commitment are commonplace in many professional contracts throughout the world. Typically absent from small-scale agriculture in poor countries, such incentives may help overcome both health issues for remote rural families and supply issues for firms. Using a randomized control design, we investigate the impact [...]
Organisation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Fecha de publication: 2017
Interest in contract farming as a mechanism to coordinate linkages between farmers and agribusiness firms has grown considerably in the recent past, in large part because of the international trends towards tighter alignment in agrifood supply chains. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been responding [...]
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Fecha de publication: 2017
This study was done with the objectives of understanding the contractual relations between buyers and small-scale growers in the tobacco industry in Malawi and the impact of contract farming on smallholder incomes. Cross-sectional data was collected from 211 contract and 109 non-contract smallholder burley tobacco farmers who sold tobacco in [...]
Organisation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Fecha de publication: 2017
This brief gives an overview of contract farming including the types of contract farming arrangement, its advantages and disadvantages. It shows, among others, why companies are interested in contracting with smallholders and the role of farmers organizations.
Organisation: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA)
Fecha de publication: 2016
Growing inequality has become an important concern in many countries. One of the ways that inequality is perpetuated is through differential market access across regions. This research deals with one of the primary determinants of regional inequality manifested in terms of market access. Nepal is one country where hierarchical geography [...]
Organisation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Fecha de publication: 2016
Contract farming has often been associated with an increase in the income of participating households. It is unclear, however, whether contract farming increases other aspects of household welfare. We use data from six regions of Madagascar and a selection-on-observables design in which we control for a household’s marginal utility of [...]
Organisation: University of Minnesota
Fecha de publication: 2016
This brief gives an overview of contract farming including its advantages, pitfalls and guiding principles for responsible contract farming operations set up by FAO. It shows practical cases in the Caribbean for different commodities.
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Fecha de publication: 2016
Chapter 4 (Minot and Sawyer) provides clarity on the opportunities and limitations of contract farming as an institution that facilitates agricultural intensification by smallholders. They find that contract farming is more viable in value chains of fruits and vegetables for quality-sensitive markets, commercial dairy and poultry production, and certain cash [...]
Organisation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Fecha de publication: 2016
[Author: Mwambi, M.M., Oduol, J., Mshenga, P. and Saidi, M] Contract farming (CF) is seen as a tool for creating new market opportunities hence increasing incomes for smallholder farmers. Critics, however, argue that CF is likely to pass risks to small scale farmers, thus favouring large scale farmers at the expense [...]
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Fecha de publication: 2016
We study the effect of alleviating the information asymmetry regarding product quality that is widespread in contracts between agricultural producers and buyers in developing countries. Opportunistic buyers may underreport quality levels to farmers to reduce the price that they have to pay. In response, farmers may curb investment, thereby negatively [...]
Organisation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Fecha de publication: 2016