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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Contract farming"”.
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Debt as Infrastructure: Contract Farming, Labour, and Oil Palm in Montes de María
… thesis interrogates the operation of credit for contracted palm oil production and its impacts on the lives of peasant communities in the Colombian Caribbean. My work presents a detailed account of how credit shapes the operation of contract farming schemes as well as the labouring experiences of …
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Household and community effects of contract farming after the fast track land reform programme: a case study of Mazowe tobacco farmers
… participation and performance under tobacco contract farming arrangements in Mazowe District. The provision of land to A1 Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) beneficiaries, attracted the re-entry of capitalist agriculture system and revitalised of smallholder tobacco production. Access …
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Food supply chain management and contracting: improving conditions for small-scale paprika farmers in central Malawi
… buyers, processors and customers through contracts represents an increasingly important marketing channel in modern food supply chains due to its potential to decrease costs and increase profits for the participants in the chain. However, vulnerable small-scale farmers in developing …
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Incentive design for quality investment by smallholder producers
… and cooperatives in China have adopted contract farming to strengthen food safety control during the sourcing process. Meanwhile, several pricing schemes are applied to incentivize the quality-improving effort from producers of different risk attitudes and defaulting likelihoods. In this …
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Essays on Sustainability in Agriculture and Food Systems
… in agriculture, particularly through contract farming. In Chapter 2, we model contract farming as a bi-level optimization problem for a farmer and a company. We analytically demonstrate that different contract structures offer varying incentives for farmers to invest in …
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Relação entre resistência mecânica do solo à penetração e textura do solo em área de colheita mecanizada de cana-de-açúcar no litoral paraibano
… detriment of weather conditions, compliance with contract farming by farmers and advancement of new technologies. In this scenario the mechanical resistance to penetration comes with a parameter for assessing soil physical quality in detriment of the intensive use of agricultural machinery in …
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Commercial Viability of Beef Cattle Production: A Case of Traditional Feedlots in Lake Zone, Tanzania.
… possibilities of marketing transformation into contract farming and socioeconomic contribution of feedlots to feedlots operators was crucial. The study adopted across sectional study conducted in Mwanza and Kahama districts due to having large numbers of cattle, being drought prone and large …
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Drivers of smallholder adoption and the intensity of conservation agriculture in the Masvingo District of Zimbabwe
… yields, and higher returns to inputs used in farming. Despite its claimed advantages, smallholder adoption rates of CA in Zimbabwe remained low. Empirical studies of CA adoption have not explained the intensity of its uptake. This study investigates factors influencing both the use of CA and …
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Food safety supply and demand across the agricultural value chain in China
… who employs large area of land employ, the contracting farming model is usually adopted. Despite low cost in acquiring land and labor for production, the enterprise has to compromise with a lower level of control over the production activities in the contract farming model. The second …