Kuzilwa / Fold / Henningsen Contract Farming and the Development of Smallholder Agricultural Businesses

Improving markets and value chains in Tanzania
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-30999-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Contract farming has received renewed attention recently as developing economies try to grapple with how to transform the agricultural sector and its associated value chains. This book examines different contract arrangements and specific crops, applying both qualitative and quantitative approaches in order to capture the impact of contract farming in Tanzania.

Major themes covered in the book include: issues in contract farming policy; contract farming and value chain dynamics; contract farming adoption decisions; contract farming and incoming diversification. The book presents original research from case studies conducted in Tanzania on sugar cane, tobacco, sunflower and cotton. These all have a history of trials with contract farming involving smallholders and are targeted in national strategies as main crops for establishment and upgrading of agro-industrial activities. The authors also discuss alternative aspects of contract farming such as trust, conspiracy, empowerment and corporate social responsibility.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuzilwa, Joseph A.

Fold, Niels

Henningsen, Arne

Larsen, Marianne Nylandsted

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I Contract farming in context

1. Researching the potentials and limitations of contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa

Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

2. Contract farming: fluid concept on firm grounds

Lotte Isager, Niels Fold, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

3. Overview of the agricultural sector in Tanzania

Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Daniel Mpeta, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Niels Fold

Part II Contract farming and value chain dynamics

4. Evolving governance structures and contract farming in the tobacco value chain in Tanzania

Bahati Ilembo, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen

5. Successes and Barriers regarding small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the value chain for sunflower in Tanzania: Does contract farming reduce value chain coordination problems for SMEs?

Daniel Mpeta, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Batimo Sebyiga, Niels Fold

6. Contract farming and upgrading possibilities for smallholder sugarcane growers

Thobias E. Nsindagi, Jennifer K. Sesabo

7. Coordination and upgrading in agricultural value chains: Contract farming arrangements in the Tanzanian cotton sector

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Paul Maganga Nsimbila

Part III Contract farming and household economics

8. Tobacco contract farming in the Urambo District of Tanzania: Which farmers obtain inputs on credit and which buy them for cash?

Bahati M. Ilembo, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Arne Henningsen

9. Income diversification of small-scale sugarcane contract farmers in Kilombero and Turiani, Tanzania

Thobias Nsindagi, Jennifer K. Sesabo, Arne Henningsen

Part IV Alternative aspects of contract farming

10. Trusting your partner? Sunflower contract farming in central Tanzania

Frederik Brønd

11. Contract farming in a covert sphere: conspiracy theories as counter-knowledge about sugarcane production in Tanzania

Lotte Isager

12. Does contract farming empower smallholder agricultural producers? Lessons from sunflower contract farming in Tanzania

Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Daniel Mpeta

13. Embedding the global tobacco value chain in social and environmental concerns: contract farming and corporate social responsibility projects in the Tanzanian tobacco sector

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Jonas Gillett

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph A. Kuzilwa is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Mzumbe University, Tanzania.

Niels Fold is a Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Arne Henningsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Marianne Nylandsted Larsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.