This paper investigates the determinants of participation and performance of tobacco contract farmers, and the effects …

This paper examines potential of contract farming as a rural development tool by revealing its effect on productivity … results show that contract farming achieved significantly higher technical efficiency compared to non-contract farming. Second …, logit model is investigated to determine the influential socio-economic characteristics of households for contract …

This paper examines potential of contract farming as a rural development tool by revealing its effect on productivity … results show that contract farming achieved significantly higher technical efficiency compared to non-contract farming. Second …, logit model is investigated to determine the influential socio-economic characteristics of households for contract …

% points lower due to vegetable exports. Tightening food standards induced a shift from smallholder contract-based farming to … working on large-scale farms than from contract farming. …

development framework, with contract farming being viewed as an instrument for improving value chain performance by reducing … chain in Kenya to examine these assumptions. It is shown that contract farming can be used to reduce transaction costs and …

This paper examines the performance of contract farming when agents are groupsof jointly-liable farmers who receive … andpeer monitoring, we derive the optimal monopsonistic contract under moral hazardon production effort. The principal takes …

A farmer's decision to contract or produce independently depends on the distribution of income and the nonpecuniary … representative farmer would pay for the risk reduction provided by a contract, and (3) the premium a farmer would pay for the … risk-reducing benefits of a contract. …

agricultural sector and to institute contract-based production of commodities, have raised questions about the economic position of …