Contract Farming: Partnerships for Growth - A Guide
2001
The manual’s main aims are to provide advice and guidance to those who are intending to start a contracting process, managing existing contracts and those seeking to promote new contract farming operations or monitor existing operations. The manual describes in detail the process, internal functions and monitoring mechanisms of contract farming. The manual is not a training manual per se, but (has and) can effectively be used as a training aid to set up training programmes dedicated to appropriate retail market planning. The manual has been used extensively in developing contract farming mechanisms.
Countries: Non-country specific
Commodities: Non-Commodity specific
Topics: Contract mechanisms
Personal author: Charles Eaton, Andrew W. Shepherd
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Category: Field-based materials
Level suitability: Intermediate
Type: Learning material
Format: Document
References: EN