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Highlights: Contract farming has re-emerged in the last decade as a solution to land grabbing, assisting farmers to keep their land and access markets. The study found minimal...

The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare...

Participation in contract farming has the potential to enhance farmers’ income and livelihoods both in developed and developing countries, yet the influence of literacy levels on such agri-systems remains...

To modernize agricultural value chains, some governments subsidize contract prices paid to farmers by private firms to encourage them to adopt contract farming. The impact of price-subsidized...

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...

Agricultural firms in rural areas of developing countries may decide to implement aggregation schemes, typically through contract farming arrangements (CFAs). While firms’ rationale...

We investigate the role of contracts in farmers' access to credit over time using the conceptual framework of livelihoods and the economics of rural organisations. We applied multi-component analysis...

Blockchain technology has the potential to reduce the need for trust and to ensure accountability and equity in smallholder agricultural development. We present two applications – one already...

We use a stochastic frontier approach corrected for self-selection to separate technology and managerial gaps between the treatment and control groups of smallholders in baby corn production in India...

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...