farming. This book explores the policy issues around contract farming, its transformative potential, and addresses the lack of … the effects of contract farming (vertical coordination) on productivity, food security indicators (yield, consumption … institutional changes, like contract farming, on income and food security of smallholder households. The core of the book will …

The focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and …

diversification of contract offers might increase the willingness of farmers to participate in contract farming. This has implications …

The focus in this paper is on two relatively large maize-based contract farming (CF) schemes with fixed input packages …