The Model Agreement for Responsible Contract Farming was developed by FAO and IISD, drawing from the principles of the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming. The Model Agreement is a simple and practical legal tool for buyers and producers to improve their business relations and help make responsible agricultural investment a [...]

Ce modèle d’accord pour une agriculture sous contrat responsable est un outil juridique simple et pratique visant à soutenir la mise en oeuvre des lignes directrices et des principes mondiaux et à faire des investissements responsables une réalité. Il est destiné à résorber certaines des inégalités de l’agriculture sous contrat [...]

The public debate about the right type of agriculture for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) often constructs a dichotomy between smallholders and large-scale agriculture. This over-simplification ignores some important intermediary forms for organising agriculture, including nucleus-outgrower schemes (NOSs). NOSs promise to combine the benefits of both while potentially reducing, though not avoiding, [...]

In recent years, Greece experiences a very intensive financial crisis that -as it is expected has important effects on the primary sector. Α new form of entrepreneurship for Greece, contract farming, appeared the last years. A successful case study of contract farming in Greece is between the large enterprise “ATHENIAN BREWERY” [...]

This article reviews the literature on contract farming (CF) in India and assesses the impact of smallholders’ perceived production risks on the adoption of CF; the impact of CF on smallholders’ food security; and its impact on employment generation in their farming enterprises. We also show the impact of the [...]

En 2015, conscientes de la importancia de aumentar el conocimiento y la toma de conciencia sobre el sistema jurídico aplicable a las operaciones de agricultura por contrato, el Instituto Internacional de Unificación del Derecho Privado (UNIDROIT), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y [...]

This brief aims to help farmer leaders, farmer organizations and facilitators working with smallholders to achieve a correct understanding of the legal and operational aspects of contract farming. It is based on information extracted from the Legal Guide on Contract Farming (UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD, 2015), and from field experience in the implementation of [...]

This brief aims to help regulators and policymakers to achieve a correct understanding of the legal aspects of contract farming (CF).It is based on information extracted from the Legal Guide on Contract Farming (UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD, 2015), and from field experience in the implementation of contract farming projects by the Food and Agriculture [...]

La presente Guía es obra de un Grupo de trabajo establecido por el UNIDROIT, que reunió a expertos jurídicos de prestigio internacional, a organizaciones multilaterales asociadas y a representantes de la comunidad agrícola y los agronegocios. En el proceso de elaboración del documento participaron representantes de las partes interesadas, funcionarios [...]

In 2015, mindful of the importance of enhancing knowledge and awareness of the legal regime applicable to contract farming operations, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) released the [...]