"Approaches for promoting direct collaboration between smallholders and agribusiness are currently enjoying a renaissance. Contract farming in particular is expected to be a promising tool to integrate smallholders in sustainable value chains. There is growing demand for practical advice on how to successfully plan, implement and up-scale contract farming schemes.
The Sector Project Agricultural Policy and Food Security, the Agricultural Input Supply Project (AISP) in Zimbabwe and the Competitive African Cotton Initiative (COMPACI) issued a contract farming handbook, which provides a practical and process-oriented approach guiding practitioners through sound planning, starting up, consolidation and up-scaling of contract farming (CF) schemes. It gives insights into the selection of an appropriate business model for the farm supply-firm procurement interface based on principles of fairness and transparency. It furthermore provides guiding principles, questions and answers for the development of viable CF business and practicable management plans, mutually beneficial farming contracts and mutually agreed dispute settelment"
Publisher: GIZ, 2013
