Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils
Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan Cham
2025
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| author | Narayanan, Sudha |
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| description | Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may be precipitating the unprecedented shift in favor of contract farming.
This open access book identifies the methodological differences across disciplines that have generated a false binary in discussions of contract farming. The author explains the importance of adopting a more integrated theoretical perspective, providing insights into the ways in which this can reconcile conflicting positions. Given the immense diversity of contracting schemes, commodities and contexts—as well as the substantial regional differences in contract farming experiences across a range of outcomes—a syncretic understanding of contract farming is essential to the evaluation of the promise and perils of contract farming. The resulting book proposes a way forward that is holistic in nature, framing contract farming within a comparative institutional analysis so that it can better accommodate multidisciplinary priorities. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1739002025-11-06T03:52:03Z Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils Narayanan, Sudha contract farming agriculture agricultural products retail marketing industrialization Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may be precipitating the unprecedented shift in favor of contract farming. This open access book identifies the methodological differences across disciplines that have generated a false binary in discussions of contract farming. The author explains the importance of adopting a more integrated theoretical perspective, providing insights into the ways in which this can reconcile conflicting positions. Given the immense diversity of contracting schemes, commodities and contexts—as well as the substantial regional differences in contract farming experiences across a range of outcomes—a syncretic understanding of contract farming is essential to the evaluation of the promise and perils of contract farming. The resulting book proposes a way forward that is holistic in nature, framing contract farming within a comparative institutional analysis so that it can better accommodate multidisciplinary priorities. 2025-03-18 2025-03-27T14:53:26Z 2025-03-27T14:53:26Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173900 en https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12471 Open Access application/pdf Palgrave Macmillan Cham Narayanan, Sudha. 2025. Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76487-5 |
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| title | Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils |
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| title_short | Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The promise and its perils |
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