Routledge Handbook of Contract Farming and Development

1. Introduction: Contract Farming and Development
Caroline Hambloch, Niels Fold, Sudha Narayanan, Helena Pérez Niño, and Mark Vicol

Part I: Concepts and Methods

2. Contract farming and the agrarian question: some reflections on contracts and capital
Michael J. Watts

3. New institutional economics perspectives on contract farming
Sudha Narayanan

4. Contract farming and the selection problem: an econometric dilemma
Jeffrey Bloem

5. Meta-analysis of contract farming: towards realist synthesis
Giel Ton

6. Contract farming in global value chains and global production networks
Caroline Hambloch and Mark Vicol

7. Political ecology perspectives on contract farming: environmental crises
Tanya Promburom and Mary Mostafanezhad

8. Contract farming and development discourses: a historical overview
Mark Vicol

Part II: Actors

9. Workers and labor regimes in contract farming
Oliver Pye

10. Cooperatives and contract farming arrangements
Jos Bijman

11. Contracting farming schemes and the diversity of scale and factions of capital
Carla Gras

12. Contract farming, intermediaries and oral enforcement of contracts
Prasenjit Barik, Rajshree Bedamatta, and Surjit Vikraman

13. Diversity of traders: middle-people, petty traders and big traders
Mekhala Krishnamurthy

14. Supermarkets and contract farming
Sinne Borby Oertenblad and Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

15. The state and contract farming in Africa
Giuliano Martiniello

Part III: Dynamics

16. Contract farming and terms of the contract: a review of best practices
Andrew W. Shepherd

17. Contracts in the real world
Sudha Narayanan

18. Inclusion of smallholders in contract farming
Filipe Di Matteo and Kei Otsuki

19. Inclusive business models and contract farming
Xiaoxue Weng, Benno Pokorny, and George Schoeneveld

20. Agricultural intensification and informal contract farming
Janwillem Liebrand

21. Why are so few farmers contracted by retail chains in the Global South?
Thomas Reardon and Sudha Narayanan

22. Regional economic development and contract farming
Niels Fold and Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

23. Land reform and contract farming
Freedom Mazwi and Caroline Hambloch

24. Land grabbing and contract farming
Elisa Greco

25. Land, land rentals and contract farming
Niels Fold

26. Plant pathogens, power and contract farming
Diana Córdoba

27. Credit and indebtedness in contract farming
Joseph Martinez Salinas

28. Exploitation in contract farming
Caroline Hambloch and Luis Baquero Bernal

29. Resistance and contract farming
Caroline Hambloch

30. Contract farming and social movements
Gurav Bansal and Mark Vicol

Part IV: Regional Patterns

31. Contract farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joseph Awetori Yaro and Michael Pervarah

32. Contract farming in South Asia
Shreya Sinha

33. Contract farming in China
Yunan Xu and Qian Forrest Zhang

34. Contract farming in Latin America
Enrique Castañón Ballivián

35. Contract farming in Central Asia
Irna Hofman

36. Contract farming in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia
Robert Cole and Danny Marks

Biography

Caroline Hambloch leads the DFG Junior Research Group, "Local Labor Struggles in Global Value Chains", at the University of Bonn. Her research examines the political economy of contract farming, global value chains, and labor agency. She holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Niels Fold is Professor at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen. His research addresses the relationship between economic-geographic globalization processes and local responses in the Global South, primarily examined through the analytical lens of global value chains (GVCs) and livelihoods.

Sudha Narayanan is a Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi. She holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Cornell University and dual master’s degrees in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, India. Her recent work includes a book titled Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The Promise and its Perils, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Helena Pérez Niño is Assistant Professor at ISS Erasmus University Rotterdam and conducts research on the political economy of development with special emphasis on the social organisation of production in agriculture and the social impact of globalised agricultural markets. Her current research examines agricultural intensification and underwhelming trajectories of productive upgrade.

Mark Vicol is Assistant Professor of Agrarian Sociology in the Rural Sociology Group  and co-coordinator of the Critical Agrarian Studies research cluster at Wageningen University.