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Empowering farmers: Unveiling the economic impacts of contract farming on red chilli farmers’ income in Magelang District, Indonesia

Open Agriculture
Contract farming is widely recognised as an empowering tool to improve the welfare of farmers in developing countries and as an institutional solution to address issues related to market failure, credit, insurance, and information.
Angreheni Diah, Darma Rahim, Fudjaja Letty   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does contract farming participation promote household’s food security for smallholders? Empirical evidence from Indonesia

Jurnal Ekonomi & Studi Pembangunan
Contract farming has been extensively adopted as a strategy to overcome limitations in the market and enhance the well-being of farmers. Nevertheless, the extent to which it affects food security has not been sufficiently examined and is uncertain ...
Ni Putu Sumartini, Rus’an Nasrudin
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Contract Farming on Smallholder Farmers' Livelihood and Food Security in Kubau LGA, Kaduna State, Nigeria [PDF]

Global Journal of Environmental Science & Sustainability
The study aimed at establishing influence of contract farming on smallholder farmers’ livelihood and food security in Kubau Local Government Area, using descriptive survey design.
Martin Royal Okechukwu Onwunali , Gloria Oluchi Oparandudu, Shuaibu Bako Musa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao, Simon Meister, Lucie Maruejols, Xiaohua Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological Contracts in Dairy Farming

Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand, 1998
Improved employment relations are perceived as one way of further improving efficiency in the production of milk. To explore the existing state of employment relations in dairy farming and milk production a study of the psychological contracts existing between dairy farmer employers and dairy farm employees was initiated.
Rupert Tipples, Eriko Gould
openaire   +2 more sources

Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Does contract farming enhance farm efficiency? A case of wheat growers of Haryana, India. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Saroj, Paltasingh KR, Jena PK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
wiley   +1 more source

Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of cattle contract farming in the Northern communal areas of Namibia

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Contract farming has emerged as a rapidly expanding and sustainable agricultural practice, offering significant potential benefits for agribusinesses, smallholder farmers, and the broader economy.
Brendel Lewnsky Chuma, Benisiu Thomas, Cecil Togarepi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source