Contract farming, smallholders, and rural development in Latin America: The organization of agroprocessing firms and the scale of outgrower production
Contract farming, smallholders, and rural development in Latin America: The organization of agroprocessing firms and the scale of outgrower production
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DOI：
10.1016/s0305-750x(98)00144-2
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发表时间：
1999-02-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Runsten, D
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文献类型：
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作者：
Key, N;Runsten, D
本文展示了订单农业作为一种经济制度的功能，并探讨了拉丁美洲外围种植者生产规模变化的原因。我们概述了市场的不完善性和交易成本如何影响农产品加工企业的决策，以承包出去，垂直整合，或使用现货市场获得原材料产品。本文演示了市场条件是如何可能与合同种植下的特定外围种植者的特点。对墨西哥冷冻蔬菜业的分析说明了小规模承包成功和不成功的决定因素，并提出了促进与小农的合同农业的替代政策。(C)1999爱思唯尔科技有限公司。保留所有权利。
This paper demonstrates how contract farming functions as an economic institution and explores the causes of the observed variation in the scale of outgrower production in Latin America. We outline how marker imperfections and transaction costs influence the decision of agroprocessing firms to contract-out, vertically integrate, or use spot markets to obtain raw product. The paper demonstrates how market conditions are likely to be associated with particular outgrower characteristics under contract fanning. An analysis of the Mexican frozen vegetable industry illustrates determinants of successful and unsuccessful small-scale contracting and suggests alternative policies to promote contract farming with smallholders. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.