{"product_id":"contract-farming-in-developing-countries-sudha-narayanan-9783031764868","title":"Contract Farming in Developing Countries: The Promise and Its Perils","description":"\u003cp\u003eContract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old phenomenon. A new wave of agricultural industrialization and the emergence of large-scale food retailing in developing countries may be precipitating the unprecedented shift in favor of contract farming.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis open access book identifies the methodological differences across disciplines that have generated a false binary in discussions of contract farming. The author explains the importance of adopting a more integrated theoretical perspective, providing insights into the ways in which this can reconcile conflicting positions. Given the immense diversity of contracting schemes, commodities and contexts--as well as the substantial regional differences in contract farming experiences across a range of outcomes--a syncretic understanding of contract farming is essential to the evaluation of the promise and perils of contract farming. The resulting book proposes a way forward that is holistic in nature, framing contract farming within a comparative institutional analysis so that it can better accommodate multidisciplinary priorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sudha Narayanan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031764862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031764868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d","brand":"Sudha Narayanan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48446060691711,"sku":"9783031764868","price":59.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9ed3c36-0f03-4e7e-9aec-c69324f444b1.jpg?v=1777222371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contract-farming-in-developing-countries-sudha-narayanan-9783031764868","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}