Course Overview
Course overview: Introduction to the course
- Training objectives
- How to use this overview
- Why is this training relevant and to whom?
- How can learners, training providers and sponsors use this training?
- How is the training organized? Main module themes and takeaways
- Training methodology
- What evaluation and post-training follow-up does the course include?
Module 1: Basic concepts
- What is contract farming?
- Why the growing interest in contract farming?
- Transformation of Global Agrifood Systems
- Constraints faced by Smallholder Producers in Market Participation
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Contract Farming for Producers and Buyers
- Contract farming models
- Maximizing the Impact for Successful and Sustainable Contract Farming
- Case study 1: Contract farming in the poultry sector in Brazil
Module 2: Preparation of contract farming pilot
- Contract farming general process
- Roles of contract farming facilitators
- Feasibility assessment
- Potential benefits and risks
- Buyer’s and producers’ capacities for pilot contract farming
- Choosing the right contract farming model
- Selecting farmers
- Preparing farmers
Module 3: Understanding the content of a contract
- Introduction to the legal aspects of contract farming
- What does a contract usually look like? Form and content
- Understanding the responsibilities of the parties
- Case study 2: Responsibilities of the parties in a rubber outgrower scheme in Ghana
- Case study 3: Potatoes in India
Module 4: What to do if things go wrong?
- Managing risks
- Force majeure, breaches and remedies
- Options to resolve conflicts
- Case study 4: Contract breakdown and conflict resolution: the case of vanilla production in Tonga
Module 5: Enabling environment for contract farming
- Promoting a sound regulatory framework for contract farming
- Policies and strategies for fostering contract farming
- Case study 5: The Albanian regulatory framework for contract farming
- Case study 6: The new Brazilian contract farming law
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