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Download or read book Contract Farming written by Charles Eaton and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in contract farming is growing, especially in countries that previously had a central planning policy. The purpose of this guide is to provide advice to existing contract farming companies on how they can improve their operations and to those thinking of starting such companies on the preconditions of success.
Book Synopsis Contract Farming and Vertical Integration, 1953-1962 by : Nellie Geneva Larson
Download or read book Contract Farming and Vertical Integration, 1953-1962 written by Nellie Geneva Larson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Contract Farming and the State by : Sukhpal Singh
Download or read book Contract Farming and the State written by Sukhpal Singh and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the contract farming systems in Thailand and India with focus on the role of the State in these two countries. The study is based on case studies of four agri-Business firms and their farmers in Northern Thailand in potato and sweet corn crops. This study also attempts to look out the larger impacts of contracting on the local economy in these two countries. The book will he highly useful for stake holders in contract farming-policy makers, academics, agri-business firms etc.
Book Synopsis Policy framework for contract farming: An alternate to Aarthi system in Pakistan by : Rana, Abdul Wajid
Download or read book Policy framework for contract farming: An alternate to Aarthi system in Pakistan written by Rana, Abdul Wajid and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global agricultural production is undergoing a remarkable shift due to globalization and market liberalization (Setboonsarng et al., 2008). Food markets are transforming from a ‘non-programmed to programmed’ regime stemming from overwhelming changes in demand patterns happening concurrently with variations in production dynamics internationally (Oostendorp, 2018). This presents both the challenge and opportunity to change and adapt to this more structured world to reap benefits for both smallholder farmers and exporters (Setboonsarng et al., 2008).
Book Synopsis Contract Farming and Tenancy Reforms by : R. S. Deshpande
Download or read book Contract Farming and Tenancy Reforms written by R. S. Deshpande and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcript of papers presented during a workshop held at Mussorie from 15-16 March, 2007.
Book Synopsis Political Economy of Contract Farming in India by : Sukphal Singh
Download or read book Political Economy of Contract Farming in India written by Sukphal Singh and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Punjab State, India.
Book Synopsis Smallholder farmers’ participation in profitable value chains and contract farming: Evidence from irrigated agriculture in Egypt by : Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr.
Download or read book Smallholder farmers’ participation in profitable value chains and contract farming: Evidence from irrigated agriculture in Egypt written by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul Jr. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The participation of smallholder farmers in high-value and profitable value chains as well as contract farming remains low in Africa. This paper aims to identify observable and unobservable constraints that explain joint participation in profitable value chains and contract farming. We use a multivariate probit model to estimate potential complementarities between the cultivation of these various value chains (vegetables, fruits, spices, herbs, and cereals), and participation in contract farming. We identify several important observable factors that reinforce and hence limit smallholders’ participation in both low and high value chains as well as contract farming. For example, we find suggestive evidence that smallholders in Egypt face a trade-off between ensuring food security to their households and maximizing profit, and land plays a major factor in moderating this trade-off. We find that farmers with limited land resources are more likely to devote a larger share of their land to low-value crops such as cereals while this pattern weakens with increasing land size and slightly reverses for high-value crops such as spices and herbs. This suggests until some level of land resources, food security goals may dominate profit motives while this reverses after ensuring that food security goals are achieved. Younger and wealthier farmers are more likely to participate in the cultivation of high-value crops such as spices and herbs as well as contract farming. We also document strong complementarities between participation in high-value value chains and contract farming. Particularly, farmers who cultivate high-value crops are more likely to be engaged in contract farming. Intuitively, this implies that addressing smallholders’ binding constraints, including risk and access to land, can encourage participation in profitable value chains and contract farming. Our findings offer suggestive evidence that may serve in targeting smallholders to join profitable value chains in Egypt and other comparable contexts.
Author :Sachiko Miyata, Nicholas Minot, and Dinghuan Hu Publisher :Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN 13 : Total Pages :36 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Impact of Contract Farming on Income: Linking small farmers, Packers, and Supermarkets in China by : Sachiko Miyata, Nicholas Minot, and Dinghuan Hu
Download or read book Impact of Contract Farming on Income: Linking small farmers, Packers, and Supermarkets in China written by Sachiko Miyata, Nicholas Minot, and Dinghuan Hu and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study compares contract and non-contract growers of apples and green onions in Shandong Province, China in order to explore the constraints on participation and the impact of contract farming on income. We find little evidence that firms prefer to work with larger farms, though all farms in the area are quite small. Using a Heckman selection-correction model, we find that contract farming raises income even after controlling for observable and unobservable household characteristics. These results suggest that contract farming can help raise small-farm income, though questions remain regarding the number of farmers that can be brought into such schemes.
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :8886449305 Total Pages :258 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (864 download)
Book Synopsis Legal Guide on Contract Farming by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Legal Guide on Contract Farming written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contract farming, broadly understood as agricultural production and marketing carried out under a previous agreement between producers and their buyers, supports the production of a wide range of agricultural commodities and its use is growing in many countries. 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 Organizatio n of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have prepared this UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming. The Guide is a useful tool and reference point for a broad range of users involved in contract farming practice, policy design, legal research and capacity building. It can contribute as well to create a favourable, equitable and sustainable environment for contract farming.
Book Synopsis Cross-border Contract Farming Arrangement by : Kanokwan Manorom
Download or read book Cross-border Contract Farming Arrangement written by Kanokwan Manorom and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series features the scholarly works supported by the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management, a region-wide capacity building program of the Asian Development Bank that supports knowledge products and services. It seeks to disseminate research results to a wider audience so that policy makers, implementers, and other stakeholders in the Greater Mekong Subregion can better appreciate and understand the breadth and depth of the region's development challenges.
Book Synopsis Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses by : Joseph A. Kuzilwa
Download or read book Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses written by Joseph A. Kuzilwa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains. This book examines different contract arrangements for selected crops, applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to examine how contract farming affects smallholders and value chain dynamics in Tanzania. Major themes covered in the book include: contract farming policy; contract farming and value chain dynamics; contract farming adoption decisions; contract farming and income diversification. The authors also discuss alternative aspects of contract farming such as trust, conspiracy, empowerment and corporate social responsibility. The book presents original research from case studies conducted in Tanzania on sugarcane, tobacco, sunflower and cotton. These crops have a history of trials and errors with contract farming involving smallholders. Furthermore, they are targeted in national strategies as some of the main crops for establishment and upgrading of agro-industrial activities in Tanzania.
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :9251303355 Total Pages :139 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (513 download)
Book Synopsis Enabling regulatory frameworks for contract farming by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Enabling regulatory frameworks for contract farming written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAO’s previous contribution to the development of contract farming saw the publication in 2015 of the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming, which focused on the bilateral relationship between an agricultural producer and a contractor. This Legislative Study develops that research and focuses on the regulatory frameworks for contract farming, aiming to highlight different possible approaches for different contexts. Responsible contract farming can be a powerful tool for small scale farmers in developing countries to move towards larger scalecommercial production. It can create economic wealth, contribute to supply chain efficiency through the production of higher quantities of better quality products, and contribute to achieving domestic food security objectives. Maximizing these benefits while minimizing the inherent risks of contract farming is reliant upon the forging of an enabling environment, a key part of which is the domestic regulatory framework. This Legislative Study provides guidance to domestic regulators and other interested readers on how to appraise and potentially reform domestic regulatory frameworks to achieve responsible contract farming. Recognising that different countries and contextual realties may benefit from different regulatory solutions, this Study provides several examples, supported by representative case studies, on how contract farming can be regulated, without promoting a single solution as the most appropriate. Please visit FAO’s Contract Farming Resource Centre, http://www.fao.org/in-action/contract-farming/en/, which is a regularly updated website hosting a variety of material on contract farming both from FAO and from other recognized authors.
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :9251095957 Total Pages :57 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Legal aspects of contract farming agreements by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Legal aspects of contract farming agreements written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document is primarily a synthesis of the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farming. It is a comprehensive document that considers contract farming from the viewpoint of private law and seeks to provide guidance concerning the design and implementation of sound contracts, thereby generally contributing to building a conducive environment for contract farming. The publication does not intend to cover all possible agricultural contracts. Its scope is limited to the bilateral relationship between producer(s) and a contractor through contract farming. This involves parties entering into a contract that could be established for a fixed term, for one production cycle, for several or many cycles or years, or for an indefinite period. The document aims to provide advice to promote harmonious relations among all parties involved in contracts and those advising them.
Book Synopsis Richters First Commercial Herb Growing Conference by : Richters Staff
Download or read book Richters First Commercial Herb Growing Conference written by Richters Staff and published by Otto Richter and Sons Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Can contract farming increase farmers’ income and enhance adoption of food safety practices? by : Kumar, Anjani
Download or read book Can contract farming increase farmers’ income and enhance adoption of food safety practices? written by Kumar, Anjani and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing inequality has become an important concern in many countries. One of the ways that inequality is perpetuated is through differential market access across regions. This research deals with one of the primary determinants of regional inequality manifested in terms of market access. Nepal is one country where hierarchical geography leads to regional inequality. Differential market access can cause as well as accentuate inequality among farmers. Coordination arrangements such as contract farming can improve outcomes for the farmers and integrators on the one hand, but on the other hand it can accentuate inequality if only some regions benefit from it. With this background, in this paper we study the case of contract farming for exports with farmers in remote hilly areas of Nepal. The prospect for contract farming in such areas with accessibility issues owing to underdeveloped markets and lack of amenities is ambiguous. On the one hand, contractors in these areas find it difficult to build links, particularly when final consumers have quality and safety requirements. On the other hand, remoteness can make the contracts more sustainable if the agroecology offers product-specific quality advantages and, more important, if there is a lack of side-selling opportunities. At the same time, concerns remain about buyers’ monopsonistic powers when remotely located small farmers do not have outside options. This study hence quantifies the benefits of contract farming on remotely located farmers’ income and compliance with food safety measures. Results show that contract farming is significantly more profitable (offering a 58 percent greater net income) than independent production, the main pathway being higher price realization, along with training on practices and provision of quality seeds.
Book Synopsis Determinants and Implications of the Growing Scale of Livestock Farms in Four Fast-growing Developing Countries by : Christopher L. Delgado
Download or read book Determinants and Implications of the Growing Scale of Livestock Farms in Four Fast-growing Developing Countries written by Christopher L. Delgado and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid growth in consumer demand for livestock offers an opportunity to reduce poverty among smallholder livestock farmers in the developing world. These farmers' opportunity may be threatened, however, by competition from larger-scale farms. This report assesses the potential threat, examining various forms of livestock production in Brazil, India, the Philippines, and Thailand. Findings show that the competitiveness of smallholder farms depends on the opportunity cost of family labor and farmers' ability to overcome barriers to the acquisition of production- and market-related information and assets. Pro-poor livestock development depends, therefore, on the strengthening of institutions that will help smallholders overcome the disproportionately high transaction costs in securing quality inputs and obtaining market recognition for quality outputs. These and other findings make this report a useful guide for researchers and others concerned with the opportunities and risks of smallholder livestock farming.
Book Synopsis Scale and Access Issues Affecting Smallholder Hog Producers in an Expanding Peri-urban Market by : Costales, Achilles
Download or read book Scale and Access Issues Affecting Smallholder Hog Producers in an Expanding Peri-urban Market written by Costales, Achilles and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2006 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic increase over the past fifteen years in domestic pork demand and production in the Philippines has created a potentially profitable opportunity for poor rural and agricultural households. In Southern and Central Luzon, the two biggest markets, however, smallholder pig producers hold only a minority share of total production compared to larger commercial farms. This report seeks to assess the scope for smallholders to remain in business by analyzing the relative profitability of small and large farms. Using field data from pig-producing households, the researchers assess the role of internal and external factors in determining a household's participation in production and marketing and examine the combination of technical and allocative efficiency exhibited by specific farms under particular circumstances. They conclude that the smallest-scale pig producers will not survive market competition and will require alternative occupations. Many others, however, could profit from pig production if policy and institutional changes ensure their access to inputs, to animal health services that can guarantee output quality, and to markets for higher quality output. These findings are a valuable contribution to poverty reduction efforts in the Philippines.
