Although many urban areas around the world have grown steadily in recent years, the
structural transformation, wherein an economy goes from relying primarily on agriculture and …

Contract farming (CF) has long been practiced but is becoming increasingly common in both
developed and developing countries with the heightened interest of consumers in food …

Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, processors, and agro-exporters are transforming
the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income …

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 …

While Contract Farming (CF) can enhance smallholders' income in developing countries,
empirical research on the motivation of smallholders to participate in CF is scarce. This …

This paper primarily focuses on the impact of government subsidies and fairness concerns
on the decisions and coordination involved in a poverty alleviation supply chain (PASC) …

The Vietnamese government is currently attempting to upgrade rice value chains in the
Mekong River Delta by encouraging (i) vertical coordination between exporters and farmers …

Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination
in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur …

Contract farming, wherein a processor contracts out the production of an agricultural
commodity to a grower, is the first step toward more vertically coordinated—and thus more …

Blanket advice on optimal fertilizer application rates has failed to achieve potential yield
gains for crop production in much of Sub‐Saharan Africa. However, digital technology now …