What is the impact of participation in commodity chains on producer welfare? Contract farming – wherein a processing … welfare in developing countries. Because the nonrandom participation of growers in contract farming has so far not been dealt … with convincingly, whether participation in contract farming increases welfare is up for debate. This paper uses the …

, and Nicaragua). We document patterns of participation, the welfare gains associated with participation, reasons for non …

increases other aspects of household welfare, however, remains unclear. Using a 1,200-household data set from Madagascar and the …

Contract farming is widely perceived as a means of increasing welfare in developing countries. Because of smallholder … self-selection in contract farming, however, it is not clear whether contract farming actually increases grower welfare. In … an effort to improve upon existing estimates of the welfare impacts of contract farming, this paper uses the results of a …

-value agricultural markets, evidence regarding the household welfare effects of such initiatives is limited. This paper analyzes the …-in-difference specification on measures of supplier and non-supplier assets to estimate the welfare effects of small farmer participation. Though …