Overview of Smallholder Contract Farming in Developing Countries

By P. Simmons. 2002

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• Contract Farming in Developing Countries: An overview (2008, unknown): “CF is often associated with export crops and high-value crops, for good reasons (Simmons, 2002).”
• The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa (2009, background): “…as declining public investment and private market failure, said to underlay exclusion, since it increases economies of scale and thereby reduces private traders’ transaction costs (Dorward, Fan, Kydd, et al., 2004; Poulton, Gibbon, Hanyani-Mlambo, et al., 2004; Simmons, 2002; Warning & Key 2002).”
• Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “Contract farming is a highly debated practice in the literature (Baumann, 2000; Simmons, 2002).”