Subsistence Farming Towards Sustainable Economic Agriculture of Small Farmers in the Developing Countries

Opinion: Smart farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture.

Agriculture has seen many revolutions, whether the domestication of animals and plants a few thousand years ago, the systematic use of crop rotations and other improvements in farming practice a few hundred years ago, or the “green revolution” with systematic breeding and the widespread use of man-made fertilizers and pesticides a few decades ago. We suggest that agriculture is undergoing a fou...

The Impact of Globalisation and Liberalisation on Agriculture and Small Farmers in Developing Countries: the Experience of Ghana

The Transition to Modern Agriculture: Contract Farming in Developing Economies Abstract Recent years have seen considerable interest in the impact of contract farming on farmers in developing countries, motivated out of belief that contract farming spurs the transition

Recent years have seen considerable interest in the impact of contract farming on farmers in developing countries, motivated out of belief that contract farming spurs the transition to modern agriculture. In this paper, we provide a thorough review of the empirical literature on contract farming in both developed and developing countries, paying careful attention to broad implications of this r...

The Plundering of Agriculture in Developing Countries

Linking agribusiness and small-scale farmers in developing countries: Is there a new role for contract farming?

This article examines a new role for contract farming in developing countries in the light of the industrialisation of agriculture and the globalisation of world markets. A theoretical rationale for contracting in developing countries is developed on the basis of adopting new institutional economic theory for the purpose of matching governance forms to market failure problems and transaction ch...