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/10986/37650This study assesses the costs and returns to firms and growers from the expansion of seven existing aggregation schemes in Mozambique, using simultaneously gathered data from the firms operating the contract farming arrangements (CFAs), the corresponding CFA participant farmers, and comparable nonparticipant farmers. Their approach combines impact evaluation and cost-benefit analysis techniques, and yields estimates both of the financial returns to firms and of the CFAs’ full social returns (including the gains to the growers and to society at large).
