Contract farming, smallholders, and rural development in Latin America: The organization of agroprocessing firms and the scale of outgrower production

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 381-401

  Key, Nigel ^a   Runsten, David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; CONTRACT FARMING; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SMALLHOLDER;

MEXICO;

EID: 0033000822     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(98)00144-2     Document Type: Article

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