Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis

While contract farming provides opportunities to link smallholder farmers to markets, its sustainability depends on how the interests of both farmers and buyers are addressed. Previous studies analyze farmers’ preferences for contracts, but buyers’ preferences for contracts and design attributes are...

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Main Author: Ochieng, Dennis O.
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143699
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description While contract farming provides opportunities to link smallholder farmers to markets, its sustainability depends on how the interests of both farmers and buyers are addressed. Previous studies analyze farmers’ preferences for contracts, but buyers’ preferences for contracts and design attributes are hardly examined. The author contributes to the knowledge gap by analyzing farmers’ and buyers’ preferences for contracts and design attributes, and the similarities and differences in preferences using a discrete choice experiment with 505 cotton farmers and 512 tea farmers in southern Malawi.
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spelling CGSpace1436992025-11-06T05:36:47Z Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis Ochieng, Dennis O. agricultural production cotton farmers contracts tea companies contract farming While contract farming provides opportunities to link smallholder farmers to markets, its sustainability depends on how the interests of both farmers and buyers are addressed. Previous studies analyze farmers’ preferences for contracts, but buyers’ preferences for contracts and design attributes are hardly examined. The author contributes to the knowledge gap by analyzing farmers’ and buyers’ preferences for contracts and design attributes, and the similarities and differences in preferences using a discrete choice experiment with 505 cotton farmers and 512 tea farmers in southern Malawi. 2020-02-01 2024-05-22T12:16:08Z 2024-05-22T12:16:08Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143699 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133675 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ochieng, Dennis O. 2020. Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis. MaSSP Policy Note 37. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133676.
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Ochieng, Dennis O.
Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis
title Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis
title_full Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis
title_fullStr Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis
title_full_unstemmed Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis
title_short Towards designing better contracts: Assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers: Evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in Malawi: Synopsis
title_sort towards designing better contracts assessing contract preferences of small farmers and buyers evidence from a choice experiment in cotton and tea schemes in malawi synopsis
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cotton
farmers
contracts
tea
companies
contract farming
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