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Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses: Improving markets and value chains in Tanzania book cover

1st Edition

Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses Improving markets and value chains in Tanzania

Edited By Joseph A. Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen Copyright 2017
254 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains. This book examines different contract arrangements for selected crops, applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to examine how contract farming affects smallholders and value chain dynamics in Tanzania.... Read more

Part I Contract farming in context

1. Researching the potentials and limitations of contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa

Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

2. Contract farming: fluid concept on firm grounds

Lotte Isager, Niels Fold, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

3. Overview of the agricultural sector in Tanzania

Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Daniel Mpeta, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Niels Fold

Part II Contract farming and value chain dynamics

4. Evolving governance structures and contract farming in the tobacco value chain in Tanzania

Bahati Ilembo, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

5. Successes and Barriers regarding small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the value chain for sunflower in Tanzania: Does contract farming reduce value chain coordination problems for SMEs?

Daniel Mpeta, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Batimo Sebyiga, Niels Fold

6. Contract farming and upgrading possibilities for smallholder sugarcane growers

Thobias E. Nsindagi, Jennifer K. Sesabo

7. Coordination and upgrading in agricultural value chains: Contract farming arrangements in the Tanzanian cotton sector

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Paul Maganga Nsimbila

Part III Contract farming and household economics

8. Tobacco contract farming in the Urambo District of Tanzania: Which farmers obtain inputs on credit and which buy them for cash?

Bahati M. Ilembo, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Arne Henningsen

9. Income diversification of small-scale sugarcane contract farmers in Kilombero and Turiani, Tanzania

Thobias Nsindagi, Jennifer K. Sesabo, Arne Henningsen

Part IV Alternative aspects of contract farming

10. Trusting your partner? Sunflower contract farming in central Tanzania

Frederik Brønd

11. Contract farming in a covert sphere: conspiracy theories as counter-knowledge about sugarcane production in Tanzania

Lotte Isager

12. Does contract farming empower smallholder agricultural producers? Lessons from sunflower contract farming in Tanzania

Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Daniel Mpeta

13. Embedding the global tobacco value chain in social and environmental concerns: contract farming and corporate social responsibility projects in the Tanzanian tobacco sector

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Jonas Gillett

Biography

Joseph A. Kuzilwa is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Mzumbe University, Tanzania.

Niels Fold is a Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Arne Henningsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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