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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