Linking agribusiness and small-scale farmers in developing countries: Is there a new role for contract farming?

By J. Kirsten, K. Sartorius. 2002

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Subfields: Soil Science, Strategy and Management

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Plantations, Contract Farming and Commercial Farming Areas in Africa: A Comparative Review (2013, background): “It is argued that the risks and challenges of marketing cash crops in developing countries have encouraged contract farming as an alternative to full integration or reliance on spot markets (Key & Runsten 1999; Kirsten and Sartorius 2002; Bolwig et al. 2009; Prowse 2012).”
Does contract farming improve smallholder income? The case of avocado farmers in Kenya (2016, background): “Porter and Phillips-Howard (1997), Kirsten and Sartorious (2002) and Kottila and Rönni (2008) observe that contracts are less likely to thrive under conditions of mistrust resulting from Farm income Avocado income Total household income atet 0.378 (0.830) 0.176 (0.867) 0.148 (1.623) atent 0.698…”
Contract farming configuration: Smallholders’ preferences for contract design attributes (2013, neutral): “First, in a thin market environment, farmers need a guaranteed market for their product before they actually invest in production (Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002).”
Small Farmers and Big Retail: trade-offs of supplying supermarkets in Nicaragua (2012, background): “Considerable research has anticipated (Barrett and Reardon, 2000; Blandon et al., 2009; Key and Runsten, 1999; Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002; Gibbon, 2003) and identified (Dolan and Humphrey, 2000; Boselie et al.”
Organic Farming and Small-Scale Farmers: Main Opportunities and Challenges (2017, background): “Concerning the export market, due to relatively strict 551 standards and high expectations of consumers and supermarkets in developed countries for high 552 quality food, only a limited number of farmers in developing countries can reach such markets 553 (Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002).”
Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa (2008, background): “– and that enable producers to coordinate on quality control and product assembly so as to reduce the average fixed costs intermediaries face in collecting commodities (Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002).”
A framework to facilitate institutional arrangements for smallholder supply in developing countries: An agribusiness perspective (2007, background): “Furthermore, it is often problematic for agribusiness to ignore larger suppliers and include small-scale farmers in high risk supply chains because of the incremental transaction cost (Runsten and Key, 1996; Rehber, 1998; Key and Runsten, 1999; Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002).”
Contract Farming in Developing Countries: An overview (2008, neutral): “These disadvantages include farmers’ loss of autonomy (i.e. increasing dependency and chance of becoming exploited) and increased production risk (Singh, 2002; Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002).”
Agricultural cooperatives II: Can they facilitate access of small-scale farmers in South Africa to input and product markets? (2007, background): “With Kirsten and Sartorius (2002) providing an in-depth study of contract farming, this study focuses on the appropriateness of cooperatives in reducing transaction costs for smallholder farmers and facilitating their access to input and product markets.”
Livestock sector development for poverty reduction: an economic and policy perspective. Livestock's many virtues. (2012, background): “These developments are transforming domestic and international agrifood systems, leading to indirect convergence and direct commercial integration of production, processing, distribution and marketing activities (Kirsten and Sartorius, 2002; Da Silva, 2005).”
Small Farmers, NGOs, and a Walmart World: Welfare Effects of Supermarkets Operating in Nicaragua (2013, neutral): “…level, and on whether there has been exclusion based on farm size or non-land assets (Barrett and Reardon 2000; Blandon, Henson, and Islam 2009; Key and Runsten 1999; Kirsten and Sartorius 2002; Gibbon 2003; Dolan and Humphrey 2000; Boselie, Henson, and Weatherspoon 2003; Reardon et al. 2003).”