Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world
The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy. Contract farming has extended the footprint of commodity production and integrated land and l...
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| author | Vicol, Mark Fold, Niels Hambloch, Caroline Narayanan, Sudha Niño, Helena Pérez |
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| description | The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy. Contract farming has extended the footprint of commodity production and integrated land and labour not otherwise captured in forms of direct production and marketing. 25 years after the publication of Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a foundational collection edited by Peter Little and Michael Watts, it is necessary to take stock of the most prominent developments in the practice of contract farming and in the political economy literature studying it. The ultimate contribution of Living Under Contract was framing contract farming as expressing the unevenness of power relations in agriculture and grounding it in specific political, historical and social contexts that were not examined in the mainstream accounts. This introduction to the special issue revisits the questions that have remained relevant or re-emerged in the political economy literature on contract farming; it raises new questions that reflect contemporary developments and it explains how the papers in this collection contribute to the expansion of the theoretical and empirical horizons of the research on contemporary contract farming in low and middle-income countries. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1413852025-10-26T13:01:11Z Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world Vicol, Mark Fold, Niels Hambloch, Caroline Narayanan, Sudha Niño, Helena Pérez value chains agrarian reform agricultural products farmers smallholders trade developing countries contract farming rural areas The expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy. Contract farming has extended the footprint of commodity production and integrated land and labour not otherwise captured in forms of direct production and marketing. 25 years after the publication of Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a foundational collection edited by Peter Little and Michael Watts, it is necessary to take stock of the most prominent developments in the practice of contract farming and in the political economy literature studying it. The ultimate contribution of Living Under Contract was framing contract farming as expressing the unevenness of power relations in agriculture and grounding it in specific political, historical and social contexts that were not examined in the mainstream accounts. This introduction to the special issue revisits the questions that have remained relevant or re-emerged in the political economy literature on contract farming; it raises new questions that reflect contemporary developments and it explains how the papers in this collection contribute to the expansion of the theoretical and empirical horizons of the research on contemporary contract farming in low and middle-income countries. 2022-01 2024-04-12T13:37:48Z 2024-04-12T13:37:48Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141385 en Open Access Wiley Vicol, Mark; Fold, Niels; Hambloch, Caroline; Narayanan, Sudha; and Niño, Helena Pérez. 2022. Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world. Journal of Agrarian Change 22(1): 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12471 |
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| title | Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world |
| title_full | Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world |
| title_short | Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world |
| title_sort | twenty five years of living under contract contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world |
| topic | value chains agrarian reform agricultural products farmers smallholders trade developing countries contract farming rural areas |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141385 |
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