experiment, we study behavior in a contract farming game without third-party enforcement but with an external spot market as … outside option. Two players, farmer and company, may conclude a contract but also breach it by side-selling or arbitrary … payment reductions. We examine if and how relational contracts and personal communication can support private …

This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India, bringing together … data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses and 484 contract farmers from multiple … commodity sectors. The central argument of this paper is that contract farming relationships in India are seen more as …

Indian agriculture is under policy reforms for some time now. One of the issues it faces is that of lack of viability … reorganizaing the production systems are being attempted in the form of contract farming and corporate farming. At the state level …, laws are being amended to facilitate the practice of contract farming and corporate farming. Where contract farming means …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate contract farming in China, using vegetable production as a case …. Specifically, the authors analyze farmers' contract decisions for different types of contracts, their contract compliance behaviors … authors assume growers with alternative risk preferences make the contract decisions to maximize their expected utilities …

The present paper examines contract farming and its situation in India on the basis of nature of contracts, nature of … contract growers, practice and implementation of contract farming and techniques, practices and changing dynamics of contract …

The present paper examines the rationale for the introduction of contract farming in Indian context and advantages and … farmers. It is also looking into what are the ideal market conditions necessary for the contract farming to be encouraged and … to what extent state can have its regulatory mechanism to monitor and control the contract farming to the extent it …