Market Structure, Outside Options and Motivations

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

Chapter Chapter 8 in Contract Farming in Developing Countries, 2025, pp 117-126 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter argues that a critical point of contention between economists and most other social scientists is the question of power within contractual relationships. This chapter focuses on the role of contextual conditions in shaping whether there is uptake of schemes, the nature of arrangements and the relative position of the grower. These can collectively define the nature of the relationship between firms and farmers that can be predatory, symbiotic or one of cooperative conflict.

Keywords: Contract farming; Outside options; Competition; Monopsony; Oligopsony predatory; Symbiosis; Cooperative conflict; Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-76487-5_8

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