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Contracting Out of Poverty: Experimental Approaches to Innovation in Agricultural Markets with Small Farmers
Project
Project code: keine Angaben
Contract period: 01.01.2008
- 30.12.2010
Budget: 949,755 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Welfare of the rural poor is improved due to:
- Increased access of smallholders to contract farming arrangements linking them to dynamic
markets for highvalue products.
- Identification of optimal institutional arrangements that provide adequate incentives to firms and farmers by reducing transaction costs in the contractual relationship.
- Policy makers and development practitioners have better information to improve the welfare of the poor by implementing new institutional mechanisms that favor the inclusion of smallholders in markets for high-value
products.
- Contractors in public, private, and third sector organizations demanding contract farming services apply optimal institutional arrangements to improve their access to smallholders by reducing their transaction
costs.
- Government agencies, NGOs, and donor organizations that oversee the interests of smallholders provide better information on firms’ reputations and reliable third party
quality control services for contract enforcement.
- Local researchers learn the necessary skills to implement the recommendations from the study and develop a local
network.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Policy
- Agroeconomics
