Contract Farming in Developing Countries
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-76486-8 (ISBN)
Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may be precipitating the unprecedented shift in favor of contract farming.
This open access book identifies the methodological differences across disciplines that have generated a false binary in discussions of contract farming. The author explains the importance of adopting a more integrated theoretical perspective, providing insights into the ways in which this can reconcile conflicting positions. Given the immense diversity of contracting schemes, commodities and contexts-as well as the substantial regional differences in contract farming experiences across a range of outcomes-a syncretic understanding of contract farming is essential to the evaluation of the promise and perils of contract farming. The resulting book proposes a way forward that is holistic in nature, framing contract farming within a comparative institutional analysis so that it can better accommodate multidisciplinary priorities.
Sudha Narayanan is Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She holds a PhD from Cornell University, where she specialized in agricultural economics.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Contract farming in perspective.- Chapter 3: Researching and theorizing contract farming.- Chapter 4: Towards a framework for contract farming.- Chapter 5: Operationalizing the framework.- Chapter 6: Why, when and how do firms contract?- Chapter 7: Why do farmers contract or not?.- Chapter 8: Market structure, outside options and motivations.- Chapter 9: The contract.- Chapter 10: Enforcement.- Chapter 11: The fluidity of contract farming Schemes.- Chapter 12: Welfare impacts of contract farming.- Chapter 13: Labor and the environment.- Chapter 14: The State.- Chapter 15.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy |
| Zusatzinfo | XXV, 284 p. 13 illus., 9 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Technik |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| Schlagworte | Agribusiness • Agricultural commodities • Agricultural industrialization • agro-industry • Contract Farming • Firm-farm connections • Globalization • Globalization of agribusiness • open access • Producer-processor relationship |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-76486-2 / 3031764862 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-76486-8 / 9783031764868 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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