{"id":11207,"date":"2015-08-06T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2015-08-05T19:12:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T23:12:06","slug":"empirical-research-on-contract-farming-quo-vadis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/11207","title":{"rendered":"Empirical Research on Contract Farming: Quo Vadis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

That was the title of my talk at the Rapid Agrifood System Transformation, Globalization, and International Development pre-conference held before this year’s Agricultural and Applied Economics Association annual meetings.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> are the slides for that talk, which focused on where the empirical research on contract farming should be headed over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the talk went over:<\/p>\n

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  1. The need to move to outcomes beyond income. (This new\u00a0working paper<\/a>\u00a0should be\u00a0a step in that direction.)<\/li>\n
  2. The need to study the mechanisms through which participation in contract farming improves welfare.<\/li>\n
  3. The need for better causal identification, at least when it comes to welfare effects.<\/li>\n
  4. A potential marriage between agricultural and development economics on the one hand and industrial organization on the other hand.<\/li>\n
  5. The usefulness of the contract farming literature in studying the structural transformation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There is no paper yet, but the organizers of the pre-conference–Tom Reardon (Michigan State), David Zilberman (Berkeley), Bart Minten (IFPRI), and Jo Swinnen (Leuven)–are hoping to put together a special issue of a journal on the theme of the conference, so there will eventually be a working paper, if not an article for a special issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    That was the title of my talk at the Rapid Agrifood System Transformation, Globalization, and International Development pre-conference held before this year’s Agricultural and Applied<\/p>\n

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