Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Institute
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionMiddle Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierSudha Narayanan: 0000-0003-1048-2341
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12471
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - South Asia Region
cg.identifier.publicationRankB
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn1471-0358
cg.issue1
cg.journalJournal of Agrarian Change
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.volume22
dc.contributor.authorVicol, Mark
dc.contributor.authorFold, Niels
dc.contributor.authorHambloch, Caroline
dc.contributor.authorNarayanan, Sudha
dc.contributor.authorNiño, Helena Pérez
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-12T13:37:48Zen
dc.date.available2024-04-12T13:37:48Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/141385
dc.titleTwenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing worlden
dcterms.abstractThe expansion of contract farming schemes through regions of the developing world in the era of the globalization of agriculture raises questions that are central to the study of agrarian political economy. Contract farming has extended the footprint of commodity production and integrated land and labour not otherwise captured in forms of direct production and marketing. 25 years after the publication of Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a foundational collection edited by Peter Little and Michael Watts, it is necessary to take stock of the most prominent developments in the practice of contract farming and in the political economy literature studying it. The ultimate contribution of Living Under Contract was framing contract farming as expressing the unevenness of power relations in agriculture and grounding it in specific political, historical and social contexts that were not examined in the mainstream accounts. This introduction to the special issue revisits the questions that have remained relevant or re-emerged in the political economy literature on contract farming; it raises new questions that reflect contemporary developments and it explains how the papers in this collection contribute to the expansion of the theoretical and empirical horizons of the research on contemporary contract farming in low and middle-income countries.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2021-12-21
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVicol, Mark; Fold, Niels; Hambloch, Caroline; Narayanan, Sudha; and Niño, Helena Pérez. 2022. Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world. Journal of Agrarian Change 22(1): 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12471en
dcterms.extentpp. 3-18
dcterms.issued2022-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0
dcterms.publisherWiley
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8094
dcterms.subjectvalue chainsen
dcterms.subjectagrarian reformen
dcterms.subjectagricultural productsen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjecttradeen
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen
dcterms.subjectcontract farmingen
dcterms.subjectrural areasen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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