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Beskrivning
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.
Sudha Narayanan is Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She holds a PhD from Cornell University, where she specialized in agricultural economics.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Contract farming in perspective.- Chapter 3: Researching and theorizing contract farming.- Chapter 4: Towards a framework for contract farming.- Chapter 5: Operationalizing the framework.- Chapter 6: Why, when and how do firms contract?- Chapter 7: Why do farmers contract or not?.- Chapter 8: Market structure, outside options and motivations.- Chapter 9: The contract.- Chapter 10: Enforcement.- Chapter 11: The fluidity of contract farming Schemes.- Chapter 12: Welfare impacts of contract farming.- Chapter 13: Labor and the environment.- Chapter 14: The State.- Chapter 15.