Contract farming and smallholder incentives to produce high quality: experimental evidence from the Vietnamese dairy sector

By Christoph Saenger, M. Qaim, Maximo Torero, A. Viceisza. 2013

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Large Farm Establishment, Smallholder Productivity, Labor Market Participation, and Resilience: Evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Second, output is not perishable, reducing the advantage of processing facilities and leading to well-known issues of side-selling (Hueth et al. 2007; Saenger et al. 2013).”
Does contract farming improve smallholder income? The case of avocado farmers in Kenya (2016, background): “…to be decided in advance may reduce risks associated with price fluctuations (Baumann, 2000; Eaton and Shepherd, 2001), thereby providing incentive mechanisms for smallholders to allocate resources efficiently and maximize returns on factors of production (Du et al., 2013; Saenger et al., 2013).”