This paper reviews and compares two market-driven strategies: contract farming and producer marketing cooperatives. In passing, the paper critiques the single-minded contract farming emphasis adopted by the New Partnership for African Development and its Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (NEPAD-CAADP). Pursuing ideas put forward by Burt Swanson, the International Food Policy Research Institute and the World Bank, the paper concludes with recommendations for reorganizing extension systems in less developed countries.
