The changing structure of agricultural trade in a globalizing world has become an integral part of effective rural development. In this context, contract farming has emerged as a promising rural development strategy that has gained momentum in the region, providing technical training, production inputs, and market linkages to smallholders. Contractors, [...]

Contracts may be subject to strategic default, particularly if public enforcement institutions are weak. In a lab experiment, we study behavior in a contract farming game without third-party enforcement but with an external spot market as outside option. Two players, farmer and company, may conclude a contract but also breach it by side-selling [...]

La agricultura por contrato se puede definir como un sistema de producción agrícola llevado a cabo según un acuerdo entre un comprador y los agricultores, mediante el cual se establecen las condiciones para la producción y la comercialización de uno o más productos agrícolas. Por lo general, el agricultor se [...]

Recent years have seen considerable interest in the impact of contract farming on farmers in developing countries, motivated out of belief that contract farming spurs transition to modern agriculture. In this article, we provide a thorough review of the empirical literature on contract farming in both developed and developing countries, [...]

This research is aimed to study the impacts on rural farm households of contract farming in Savannakhet, Lao PDR. The study has been conducted by the qualitative approach, by in-depth interview as well as employing observation techniques. The targets of this research were 10 key informants, such as sugarcane contract farming organizations which include [...]

The case study analysis of the Advanced Chemical Industry's (ACI) pilot integrated contract farming project in Bangladesh seeks to provide insights and lessons for ACI and other companies developing inclusive business models, particularly in agriculture.

Le contrat de production agricole concerne non seulement les pays dits industrialisés ou développés, c’est le contrat de production en France, mais aussi les pays en développement, c'est le cas de la République populaire de Chine ou d'autres catégories de pays, comme les Pays les moins avancés, par exemple le [...]

While Contract Farming (CF) can enhance smallholders’ income in developing countries, empirical research on the motivation of smallholders to participate in CF is scarce. This paper explores farmer preferences for particular contract design attributes. We combined analytical hierarchy process and discrete choice experiments to investigate the importance of contract design [...]

The issue of inclusiveness of smallholders in agrifood systems is not only a matter of efficiency of the systems but is also one of the key questions for the income and welfare of rural populations in developing countries. It is specifically for these reasons that consideration of effective institutional mechanisms to enhance the participation [...]

This guide has been developed to serve practitioners involved in starting up and managing or supporting the initiation and implementation of contract farming schemes: companies (buyers) interested to develop networks of small-scale farmers as competent and reliable preferred suppliers; farmers’ organisations (farmer groups, associations, cooperatives) interested to service members (e.g. joint learning and possibly joint contract negotiation, input distribution, collection, marketing); sector [...]