Researching and Theorizing Contract Farming

Sudha Narayanan ()
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Sudha Narayanan: International Food Policy Research Institute

Chapter Chapter 3 in Contract Farming in Developing Countries, 2025, pp 27-40 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The diversity of contract farming arrangements has sometimes led to a general skepticism of universalist models. This chapter reviews the theoretical literature on contract farming within the field of economics, assessing and contrasting economic approaches with alternative frameworks. I start by summarizing some elements common to approaches followed by political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists and geographers before moving on to an elaborate discussion of economics frameworks. The goal of this chapter is to highlight the different points of departure of each approach, contrast these methodologies and identify areas where economic approaches can be infused with perspectives from other disciplines.

Keywords: Contract farming; Transactions cost economics; Neoinstitutionalism; Contract theory; Relational contracts; Critical agrarian studies; Political economy; Development economics; Make or buy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-76487-5_3

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