Organization Seminar for Rural Development (SLE), Berlin, Germany

Year 2011

To improve smallholders' access to markets, many sub-Saharan governments have introduced contract farming. Smallholders are associated to large agricultural production and processing enterprises, so they can benefit from infrastructure and marketing channels. The present paper reports that, in Namibia, this approach is not as successful as expected yet, and it even poses threats to independent smallholders specialising in vegetables and fruit.