This article reviews the literature on contract farming (CF) in India and assesses the impact of smallholders’ perceived production risks on the adoption of CF; the impact of CF on smallholders’ food security; and its impact on employment generation in their farming enterprises. We also show the impact of the outcome variables by risk preference of smallholders. Using farm-level data and endogenous switching regression methods, this study presents three key findings.

El problema de la distribución de la propiedad rural continúa vigente hoy en Colombia.

Las redes organizativas de los campesinos costeños en algunas zonas de Guayas y Los Ríos fueron muy importantes en la década de 1970 cuando la reivindicación principal era la tierra. Esto cambió después de 1980 con la existencia de otras demandas campesinas que no pudieron ser resueltas por las organizaciones. Sin embargo desde 1990 se observa la aparición de organizaciones de segundo grado articuladas por la Iglesia Popular que se sustentan en las comunidades eclesiales de base cuya acción busca la satisfacción de múltiples demandas de los pequeños productores rurales.

This report documents the violent clashes between members of farmer communities and members of herder communities in parts of Nigeria, particularly in the northern parts of the country, over access to resources: water, land and pasture. It also documents the failure of the Nigerian government in fulfilling its constitutional responsibility of protection of lives and property by refusing to investigate, arrest and prosecute perpetrators of attacks.

The Chinese central government has consistently taken decisive legal and policy measures over the past 35 years to secure, enhance, and expand farmers’ rights to farmland and forest land in order to reduce the gap in income and consumption between urban citizens and their counterparts in mountainous forest areas.