Why do small-scale producers choose to produce under contract? Lessons from nontraditional vegetable exports from Zimbabwe

World Development

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1721-1733

  Masakure, Oliver ^a   Henson, Spencer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contract farming; Export agriculture; Small scale producers; Sub Saharan Africa; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CONTRACT FARMING; DECISION MAKING; EXPORT; SMALLHOLDER; VEGETABLE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 26844460325     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.04.016     Document Type: Article

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