Contract Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Approaches, Debates and Issues

By Carlos Oya. 2012

396 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. R. Smalley
4. R. Hall
5. D. Tsikata
6. M. Maertens
7. Katrien Vande Velde
8. Doreen Kufoalor

In Soil Science

1. P. Peters
2. I. Scoones
3. R. Smalley
4. R. Hall
5. Katrien Vande Velde
6. D. Tsikata
7. M. Maertens
8. Doreen Kufoalor

Citations in the corpus

• Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains (2014, background): “The extent to which the suppliers of agricultural inputs are profiting from the sale of such financial instruments is ripe for investigation. their practices through contracts, product specifications and other arrangements (Watts 1994, Lewontin 2000, Oya 2012).”
• Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “A recent exhaustive review of the literature on contract farming, with particular reference to sub-Saharan Africa (Oya 2012), highlights the ‘substantial diversity of contract farming’, its relatively small role quantitatively, and considerable heterogeneity in both the ‘drivers’ pushing contract…”
• Creating a public tool to assess and promote transparency in global land deals: the experience of the Land Matrix (2013, background): “Beyond the effective acquisition and transactions of land, this will enlarge the scope and enable the measurement of the control of land-based activities by investors – i.e. aspects that are presently rather invisible and thus often overlooked (Ducastel and Anseeuw 2011, Oya 2012).”
• Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, background): “Agricultural commercialisation involves diverse institutional arrangements, each with varied associated labour regimes and implications for land tenure, land concentration and for agrarian structures (Oya 2012).”
• Contract farming configuration: Smallholders’ preferences for contract design attributes (2013, neutral): “Discussions on CF mainly revolve around recurrent issues, such as the role of private-led CF schemes in addressing market failures (Grosh, 1994) and in reducing the risk of agribusiness firms with regard to production, land expropriation, and labor (Herath and Weersink, 2009), and emerging issues, s”
• Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains: The Case of Rice in Benin (2017, background): “In the recent literature, contract-farming is put forward as an institutional innovation that can reduce transaction costs in food supply chains and solve market imperfections in linking smallholder farmers to markets (Key and Runsten, 1999; Oya, 2012; Swinnen and Maertens, 2007).”
• Plantations, Contract Farming and Commercial Farming Areas in Africa: A Comparative Review (2013, background): “The debate on contract farming has become polarised (De Treville & Watts 1986; Oya 2012), and researchers tend to focus on specific areas in accordance with their theoretical approach.”
• Limitations of Contract Farming as a Pro-poor Strategy: The Case of Maize Outgrower Schemes in Upper West Ghana (2018, background): “…Bellemare 2012; Miyata and Minot 2009; Wang et al. 2014; Reardon et al. 2009; Simmons, Winters, and Patrick 2005; Singh 2002; Warning and Key 2002; Oya 2012), and there is ongoing debate about CFAs’ role in rural economic growth and poverty reduction (Barrett et al. 2012; Swinnen and Maertens…”