As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming

By Marc F. Bellemare. 2012

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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Contract farming configuration: Smallholders’ preferences for contract design attributes (2013, unknown): “Several authors found that participation improves farmers’ income (e.g., Barrett et al., 2012; Bellemare, 2012; Warning and Key, 2002), although the extent to which participation contributes to the welfare of smallholders continues to be a methodological question (Barrett et al.”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “Global trade linkages can provide consumers with access to non-local foods, while providing producers a means to earn money through geographically farreaching trade networks (Bellemare 2012).”
Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. (Bellemare 2012, Fischer & Qaim 2012).”
Fair Enough? Food Security and the International Trade of Seafood (2015, unknown): “As in other food-related value chains (Barrett et al., 2012; Bellemare, 2012) the combination of (i) the significant investments needed to start up aquaculture production and (ii) limited domestic markets for aquaculture products (due for example to purchasing power constraints in developing countri”
Heterogeneous impact of cooperative membership on farmers’ welfare in Rwanda (2015, background): “The evaluation of development projects and public health programs (e.g. Basu et al., 2007; Behrman and Hoddinott, 2005; Lechner, 2002; Millimet and Tchernis, 2013) has moved beyond mean impact studies into studies analyzing the distribution of impacts within the treated subjects.”
Food value chain transformations in developing countries: Selected hypotheses on nutritional implications (2013, background): “There is ample empirical evidence that farmers who participate in supermarket supply chains enjoy higher income opportunities (Bellemare, 2012; Miyata et al., 2009), even when facing stricter product safety and product standards established by supermarkets (Minten et al.”
Smallholder participation in contract farming: Comparative evidence from five countries (2012, methodology): “Insofar as participation in CFAs seems to generate economically and statistically significant gains to participating farmers on average (Bellemare, 2010a; Michelson et al., in press; Narayanan, 2010b; Reardon et al., 2009; Swinnen, 2007), this naturally fosters rising spatial inequality and can rein”
Does contract farming improve smallholder income? The case of avocado farmers in Kenya (2016, background): “…traits such as entrepreneurial ability, risk aversion, technical ability and social networking skills, which may be correlated with the outcome of interest, in this case income (Oseni and Winters, 2009; 7 The case of avocado farmers in Kenya Maertens, 2009; Barrett et al., 2012; Bellemare, 2012).”