Contract farming as partial insurance

2021 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 105274
Author(s):  
Marc F. Bellemare ◽  
Yu Na Lee ◽  
Lindsey Novak
Keyword(s):  
Contract Farming ◽  
Partial Insurance

Contract farming for biofuels: a literature review

Food Chain ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Contract Farming

Assessment of agriculture insurance linked to contract farming and government input subsidy scheme in Zambia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy McCarthy ◽  
◽  
Agrotosh Mookerjee ◽  
Ulrich Hess ◽  
Saskia Kuhn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Contract Farming ◽  
Subsidy Scheme

The Agrarian Question in Contemporary Zimbabwe

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toendepi Shonhe
Keyword(s):  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Food Crop ◽  
Contract Farming ◽  
Agrarian Question ◽  
Food Crop Production ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agrarian Transition ◽  
Depth Interviews

The reinvestment of rural agrarian surplus is driving capital accumulation in Zimbabwe's countryside, providing a scope to foster national (re-) industrialisation and job creation. Contrary to Bernstein's view, the Agrarian Question on capital remains unresolved in Southern Africa. Even though export finance, accessed through contract farming, provides an impetus for export cash crop production, and the government-mediated command agriculture supports food crop production, the reinvestment of proceeds from the sale of agricultural commodities is now driving capital accumulation. Drawing from empirical data, gathered through surveys and in-depth interviews from Hwedza district and Mvurwi farming area in Mazowe district in Zimbabwe, the findings of this study revealed the pre-eminence of the Agrarian Question, linked to an ongoing agrarian transition in Zimbabwe. This agrarian capital elaborates rural-urban interconnections and economic development, following two decades of de-industrialisation in Zimbabwe. 

Command Agriculture and Food Security: An Interrogation of State Intervention in the Post-Fast Track Land Redistribution Era in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962097933
Author(s):  
Langton Makuwerere Dube
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Contract Farming ◽  
Credit Access ◽  
Land Redistribution ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
Fiscal Prudence

Command agriculture is a contract farming scheme necessitated by land redistribution that ruptured Zimbabwe’s sources of resilience, distorted credit access, heightened tenure insecurity, and spiked vulnerability to droughts. Using qualitative analysis of extant literature, this article rationalizes the program’s nobility of cause but argues that the program alone cannot revamp agriculture. Notwithstanding how the program has evolved, revamping agriculture also encompasses policies that address fiscal prudence and macroeconomic resilience. Equally important is agricultural training that fosters skills and technologies that are not only climate-responsive but also meet the demands of the constantly evolving agrarian value chain.

scholarly journals Sustainability of centralized contract farming among tobacco smallholder farmers in Makoni North District, Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1921324
Author(s):  
Bernard Chazovachii ◽  
Cashave Mawere ◽  
Leonard Chitongo
Keyword(s):  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Contract Farming
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