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

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.

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Prospects of Contract Farming in Uttar Pradesh

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1543767 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Mohd Saeed Khan

Keyword(s):

Uttar Pradesh ◽

Contract Farming

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การก่อตัวของวาระนโยบายและการกำหนดนโยบายเกษตรพันธสัญญา (The Agenda Setting and Policy Making in Contract Farming Policy)

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3260627 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Phicharmon Rungruangsrimethr ◽

Anusorn Limmanee

Keyword(s):

Agenda Setting ◽

Policy Making ◽

Contract Farming ◽

Farming Policy

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

Journal of Asian and African Studies ◽

10.1177/0021909620979330 ◽

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.

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