Contract Farming and Food Security

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Commercialization of the small farm sector and multidimensional poverty (2019, background): “…of smallholder agriculture – meaning a shift from subsistence to more market-oriented farming – can lead to productivity growth, income growth, employment growth, and poverty reduction (Bellemare & Novak, 2017; Carletto, Corral, & Guefi, 2017; von Braun & Kennedy, 1994; Barrett, 2008).”
Does cooperative membership increase and accelerate agricultural technology adoption? Empirical evidence from Zambia (2020, methodology): “using non-experimental survival or time to event data include inverse probability weighting (IPW) and propensity score matching (PSM) (Austin, 2011; Austin and Stuart, 2017; Bellemare and Novak, 2017).”
Assessing food value chain pathways, linkages and impacts for better nutrition of vulnerable groups (2017, unknown): “…food insecurity among participating households, either through income effects or through productive spillovers from commercial to subsistence crops (Bellemare and Novak, 2016); but evidence for the link from agricultural growth to increasing dietary diversity and intake of micronutrients is…”