This paper presents a case study of the introduction of a more gender equitable payment scheme for oil palm smallholders in Papua New Guinea. Women are now paid separately from their husbands for their work on family oil palm plots thereby increasing the economic incentives for women to commit labor [...]

In recent years the inclusion of farmers in integrated supply chains has been one of the main research topics in agribusiness. Many researchers have pleaded for a stronger vertical binding by contract farming or vertical integration. Respective schemes from the poultry industry or from abroad (e. g. the Danish pork [...]

The Market Information System (MIS) created by the Agricultural Marketing Project (AMP) jointly with its Ukrainian subcontractor APK-Inform helped boost sales and profits of small and medium sized growers, and attracted significant investments. It resulted in about $20 in additional benefits to farmers for each $ spent and became self-sufficient [...]

This article examines changing production relations in the Mexican tequila industry to explore the ways in which large industrial firms are using "reverse leasing arrangements," a form of contract farming, to extend their control over small agave farmers. Under these arrangements, smallholders rent their parcels to contracting companies who bring [...]

Empirical modeling of contract choice has been problematic because routine large-scale surveys do not contain sufficient information on matched partners and on contractual terms. This paper is based on a primary level survey of groundwater contracts in India. We discuss several different measures for riskiness and transaction costs and use [...]

The Productive Partnership Support Program promotes the establishment of productive partnerships between organized small farmers and the private commercial sector, with the support of different stakeholders (public entities, NGOs and other members of the production chain). Partnerships are to develop business activities in which all partners invest, share the risk [...]

High-value agriculture for exports is increasingly important in developing countries. In a case study of contract farming for exports of vegetables from Madagascar, strong spillover effects of these trade opportunities on land use are found to exist. Using a matched plot sampling design, the productivity of rice - the main [...]

Turkey is the largest grower of processing tomatoes in the world after the US, Italy, China and Spain. Growing tomatoes for sauce is one of the two major uses of contract farming in Turkey and this activity involves arrangements between private sauce companies and farms. This practice is now wide [...]

An emerging literature on standards, global supply chains, and development argues that enhanced quality and safety standards are major trade barriers for developing country exports and cause the marginalization of small businesses and poor households in developing countries. This paper is the first to quantify income and poverty effects of [...]

This paper evaluates how the principles of transparency, separation of powers and participation are integrated in the structure of the self-regulations. The lack of transparency with regard to all three types of self-regulation was a major bottleneck in this research. We have looked at the information available on self-regulatory schemes, [...]