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Title: Contract Farming in Asia 1 CONTRACT FARMING IN ASIA *

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2021

Abstract: This article reviews the literature on contract farming (also known as grower-processor contracts or outgrower schemes) in Asia on the basis of (i) an EconLit search for all peer-reviewed journal articles containing the terms "contract farming," "grower-processor," or "outgrower scheme*" in their title or abstract; and (ii) further selecting only those articles that focus on contract farming in Asia. This procedure yielded 42 articles that fell in one of a handful of categories and were about a handful of Asian economies. Most (i.e., 28 out of 42) studies were about the impact of contract farming on some outcome of interest-usually a proxy for welfare. Likewise, while some economies are overrepresented in the literature (e.g., India, with 17 of 42 studies) on contract farming, well over three quarters of Asian economies do not figure in this literature at all, pointing to serious shortcomings in terms of external validity. On the internal validity front, only two studies in the literature present credible (i.e., causally identified) estimates.

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Authors: Bellemare, Marc; Bellemare, Marc F

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