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Smallholder participation in contract farming : comparative evidence from five countries

Barrett, Christopher B.; Bachke, Maren E.; Bellemare, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 40 (2012) 4, pp. 715-730

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009546021

Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming : Comparative Evidence from Five Countries

Barrett, Christopher B. - 2015

Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, processors, and agro-exporters are transforming the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income economies. We develop a conceptual framework with which to study contracting between smallholders and a commodity-processing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019620

Food Aid’s Intended and Unintended Consequences

Barrett, Christopher B. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

This paper surveys the existing empirical evidence on the unintended consequences of food aid. Micro-level evidence is presented on the impacts of food aid deliveries on household labour supply, production incentives, consumption patterns and natural resource use. At the meso-level, evidence on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755004

Food Aid in Response to Acute Food Insecurity

Barrett, Christopher B. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

This paper reviews the role of food aid in response to humanitarian emergencies. It outlines a set of basic principles for effective food aid interventions, and analyses a number of case studies in humanitarian response. The paper distinguishes between rapid onset and slow onset emergencies and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755005

Food Aid as Part of a Coherent Strategy to Advance Food Security Objectives

Barrett, Christopher B. - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2006

literature on poverty traps, the rights-based approach to food security and discusses where food aid fits into an integrated … analysis of poverty and food security. The paper distinguishes between transitory and chronic poverty and between ‘safety nets …’, designed to prevent people from falling below a certain poverty threshold, and cargo nets, aimed at lifting people out of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755025

Smallholder Participation in Agricultural Value Chains: Comparative Evidence from Three Continents

Barrett, Christopher B.; Bachke, Maren E.; Bellemare, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, and processors and agro-exporters’ agricultural value chains have begun to transform the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income economies. We develop a conceptual framework through which to study contracting between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784620

Smallholder Participation in Contract Farming: Comparative Evidence from Five Countries

Barrett, Christopher B.; Bachke, Maren E.; Bellemare, … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 4, pp. 715-730

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574049

Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures : Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers

Jagnani, Maulik - 2020

We present evidence that farmers adjust agricultural inputs in response to within-season temperature variation, undertaking defensive investments to reduce the adverse agroecological impacts of warmer temperatures. Using panel data from Kenyan maize growing households, we find that higher...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853586

A century-long perspective on agricultural development

Barrett, Christopher B.; Carter, Michael B.; Timmer, … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 92 (2010) 2, pp. 447-468

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008904326

Poverty, food insecurity and gender

Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor) - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407283

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