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[MI, A., & Tobe, O. K. Bio-economy and sustainable agrifood value chains: Involvement of local stakeholders through contract farming.]
Due to expanding middle-class populations’ increased awareness of food safety and quality as well as the high standards set by developed countries’ export markets, contract farming has a bright future. In many [...]
Organization: Department of Agricultural Science Education, Oyo State College of Education, Nigeria
Year: 2022
[Hambloch, C., 2022. Contract farming and everyday acts of resistance: Oil palm contract farmers in the Philippines. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), pp.58-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12462]Contract violations are critical issues determining the success and sustainability of contract farming (CF). This paper challenges the common portrayal of the “powerful” company versus the “powerless” [...]
Organization: Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
[Mazhar, R., Xuehao, B., Dogot, T., Skominas, R., Tanaskovik, V., Azadi, H., & Wei, Z., 2022. Contract Farming and Technical Efficiency: A Case of Export-Oriented Organic Rice Farmers in Pakistan. Land, 11(11), 1953.]
Although organic rice is a niche market in Pakistan, it has exhibited enormous potential for growth in export-oriented [...]
Organization: Nanjing Agricultural University
Year: 2022
[Ruml, A., Ragasa, C. and Qaim, M., 2022. Contract farming, contract design and smallholder livelihoods. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 66(1), pp.24-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12462]Contract farming has gained in importance in many developing countries. Previous studies analysed effects of contracts on smallholder farmers’ welfare, yet mostly without considering that different [...]
Organization: German Institute for Global and Area Studies, University of Goettingen, International For Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), University of Bonn
Year: 2022
[Deutschmann, J., Bernard, T., and Yameogo, O. 2022. Contracting and quality upgrading: Evidence from an experiment in Senegal. Working paper, University of Chicago. https://jwdeutschmann.com/Papers/Aflasafe_20220905.pdf]The authors conduct a randomized experiment with groundnut producers in Senegal to address barriers to quality upgrading. They offer a bundled contract to encourage use of a [...]
Organization: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
[Veldwisch, G.J. and Woodhouse, P. 2022. Formal and informal contract farming in Mozambique: Socially embedded relations of agricultural intensification. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), pp.162-178. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12461]This paper explores the role of contract farming arrangements in agricultural intensification in sub-Saharan Africa, combining secondary literature and original case material from Mozambique. The [...]
Organization: Wageningen University
Year: 2022
[Baxter, M., Delgado, C., Romero, J. M., & Walker, I. 2022. Improving Smallholders’ Jobs Through Agribusiness Linkages: Findings Of The Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP). Jobs working paper; No.67. Washington, DC: World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/37650]This study assesses the costs and returns to firms and growers from the expansion of seven existing [...]
Organization: World Bank
Year: 2022
[FAO. 2022. Innovative contract farming arrangements in Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok.
https://doi.org/10.4060/cc1146en]Although informal transactions are still the norm in Asia and the Pacific, contractual agreements are on the rise, especially for high-value agricultural commodities. As contract farming arrangements grow in number and become more sophisticated, a series of innovations [...]
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Year: 2022
[Nguyen, G., Purseigle, F., Brailly, J. & Marre, M. (2022). Agricultural Outsourcing in France: A Statistical Perspective on an Emerging Phenomenon. Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 532-33, 89–110. doi: 10.24187/ecostat.2022.532.2073 ]
Cet article cherche à tracer les contours d’un fait émergent méconnu en agriculture,
celui de l’essor remarquable de [...]
Organization: École nationale supérieure agronomique – Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse
Year: 2022
[Isager, L., Fold, N. and Mwakibete, A. 2022. Land and contract farming: Changes in the distribution and meanings of land in Kilombero, Tanzania. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(1), pp.36-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12456] In the context of contract farming of sugarcane in an outgrower scheme in Tanzania, this paper explores how the scheme [...]
Organization: University of Copenhagen
Year: 2022