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Food sustainability standards and agricultural cooperatives: implications for the small farm sector of Côte d’Ivoire

Sellare, Jorge Luis - 2020

Sustainability standards such as Fairtrade, UTZ, and Rainforest Alliance have recently gained importance in global value chains, with some of the major tropical commodities seeing significant increases in the share of their certified area in the last ten years. This trend is directly related to...

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Do sustainability standards benefit smallholder farmers also when accounting for cooperative effects? : evidence from Cote D'Ivoire

Sellare, Jorge; Meemken, Eva-Maria; Kouamé, Christophe; … - 2019

While many studies analyzed effects of sustainability standards - such as Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance - on smallholder farmers in developing countries, most did not sufficiently account for systematic differences between certified and non-certified farmers. Certified farmers are typically...

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Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector : insights from oil palm production in Ghana

Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - 2019

smallholders. Here, we address this research gap using data from oil palm farmers in Ghana who participate in different contract …

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Smallholder farmers' dissatisfaction with contract schemes in spite of economic benefits : issues of mistrust and lack of transparency

Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - 2020

dropout rates from contract schemes are commonplace. We use data from Ghana to show that smallholders benefit from a resource …Contract farming is typically seen as a useful mechanism to help smallholders. However, despite economic benefits, high … details, which leads to mistrust. We argue that lack of transparency may explain high dropout rates in Ghana and other …

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Contract farming, contract design and smallholder livelihoods

Ruml, Anette; Ragasa, Catherine; Qaim, Matin - In: The Australian journal of agricultural and resource … 66 (2022) 1, pp. 24-43

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Effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts in the African small farm sector : insights from oil palm production in Ghana

Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 136 (2020), pp. 1-12

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Smallholder farmers' dissatisfaction with contract schemes in spite of economic benefits : issues of mistrust and lack of transparency

Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - In: The journal of development studies 57 (2021) 7, pp. 1106-1119

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The effects of marketing contracts and resource-providing contracts : comparisons in the small farm sector in Ghana

Ruml, Anette - 2020

, market access for smallholders tends to be limited due to multiple market failures, while farm production is often associated … with high risks and uncertainties. This leads to an under-investment of smallholders in proﬁtable high-value c... …

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Effects of contract farming on diets and nutrition in Ghana

Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Ruml, Anette; Qaim, Matin - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 44 (2022) 2, pp. 911-929

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Spoken words fly away, written words remain : employment contracts between farmers and farm workers

Jäckering, Lisa; Meemken, Eva-Marie; Sellare, Jorge; … - 2020

Farm workers in developing countries often belong to the poorest of the poor. They typically face low wages, informal working arrangements, and inadequate social protection. Written employment contracts with clearly defined rights and obligations could possibly help, but it is not clear how such...

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