Do development projects crowd-out private sector activities? Evidence from contract farming participation in Northern Ghana
How can organic rice be a boon to smallholders? Evidence from contract farming in India
Cooperatives, contract farming, and farm size: The case of tomato producers in Nepal
Nutrition-based incentives in dairy contract farming in northern Senegal
« Contractualiser pour transformer : enjeux pour les agricultures africaines », colloque international de FARM à l’OCDE
Access to land via Land Rental Markets
Previous studies of land contracts have focused more on efficiency questions than on determinants of access to land and dynamics of access. By looking closely at the question of access to land, the authors conclude:land rental contracts more friendly to the poor than land sales markets to access land.
Land policy for pro-poor development: draft
This draft paper outlines a strategy for World Bank involvement in land policies. It focuses on property rights to land, land transactions, and socially optimal use of land.
Research on Land Markets in South Asia: What Have We Learned?
What have we learned about land markets in South Asia about land reform, land fragmentation, sharecropping, security of tenure, farm size, land rights, transaction costs, bargaining power, policy distortions, and market imperfections (including those associated with gender)?Faruqee and Carey review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved issues. They report that: We have a good understanding of why sharecropping persists and why it can be superior to other standard agricultural contracts.
Land rights under pressure: access to resources in southern Benin
Analyses the range of institutional arrangements being used for gaining access to land and natural resources in two regions of southern Benin.
Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future
Literature review, focusing on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing. Authors have limited our discussion to private leasing of agricultural land, thereby ignoring issues pertaining to leasing of public, forest, and other noncrop lands.