The Determination of Contracts in Agricultural Economies

Leonardo Lanzona

Development Economics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: This paper aims to analyze how contracts are determined and modified given diverse agricultural settings and to examine the implications of these changes with respect to their efficiency, distribution and sustainability. The contract model presented here differs from previous contract models as the enforcement issues regarding contracts across various agro-climatic and output conditions are considered. Emphasis is placed on the effects of the shifts in production resulting from historical changes in both policy and production environments on the development contracts. Moreover, the consequences of the enforcement costs of contractual arrangements will be examined. Although much of the focus is on the rice economy, this paper attempts to provide an integrative description of the various agricultural contracts in different places in the Philippines. This will integrate the papers written on the contracts found in the fishing industry, the contract growing arrangements in Mindanao, and the contracts in swine, vegetable and mango production. Along with secondary data, the methodology for gathering data for this research includes rapid appraisal surveys, and field interviews.

Keywords: Agricultural contracts; agriculture production; contract growing; contract model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q10 Q15 Q24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.eaber.org/node/22641 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 301 [REDIRECT LOOP] Moved Permanently (http://www.eaber.org/node/22641 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22641 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22641 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22641 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22641 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22641 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22641 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/22641)

Related works:
Working Paper: The Determination of Contracts in Agricultural Economies (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eab:develo:22641

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Development Economics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Shiro Armstrong (shiro.armstrong@anu.edu.au).