Why do small-scale producers choose to produce under contract? Lessons from nontraditional vegetable exports from Zimbabwe

By O. Masakure, S. Henson. 2005

262 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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In Business and International Management

1. J. Hellin
2. M. Maertens
3. Anika Trebbin
4. Katrien Vande Velde
5. B. Shiferaw
6. M. Hassler
7. G. Muricho

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Katrien Vande Velde
2. M. Maertens
3. Anika Trebbin
4. J. Hellin
5. M. Meijer
6. B. Shiferaw
7. G. Muricho
8. Jo Swinnen

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. J. Hellin
2. B. Shiferaw
3. M. Maertens
4. Anika Trebbin
5. Katrien Vande Velde
6. M. Meijer
7. M. Hassler
8. G. Muricho

Citations in the corpus

• Farmers' Producer Companies in India: A New Concept for Collective Action? (2012, background): “…retail chains tend to integrate transactions between the farm gate and the retail outlet vertically to ensure product quality and safety, traceability, and timely aspects of supply (Brown and Sander, 2007; Dolan and Humphrey, 2004; Key and Runsten, 1999; Masakure and Henson, 2005; Shepherd, 2005).”
• Farmer organization, collective action and market access in Meso-America: (2009, background): “In Zimbabwe, local farming groups that had been established to access inputs and/or market outputs had largely disintegrated partly because there was considerable mistrust between farmers in relaying useful market information (Masakure and Henson 2005).”
• Agricultural Extension, Collective Action and Innovation Systems: Lessons on Network Brokering from Peru and Mexico (2012, background): “In Zimbabwe, many local farming groups established to access inputs and/or market outputs disintegrated because there was considerable mistrust between farmers (Masakure and Henson, 2005).”
• Contract-farming in Staple Food Chains: The Case of Rice in Benin (2017, background): “…tool to better link farmers to markets and many empirical studies, including this one, show that contract-farming can indeed improve market access for smallholder farmers and result in increased commercialization and market participation (e.g. Barrett et al., 2012; Masakure and Henson, 2005).”
• Contract farming configuration: Smallholders’ preferences for contract design attributes (2013, unknown): “Access to new production techniques not only helps farmers to improve production and market performance of the contracted crop, it can also have a positive spillover effect on other crops (Masakure and Henson, 2005; Minten et al., 2009).”
• Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “In Zimbabwe, many local farming groups established to access inputs and/or market outputs disintegrated because there was considerable mistrust between farmers (Masakure and Henson 2005).”