Contract farming, the private sector, and the state : an annotated and comprehensive bibliography with particular reference to Africa

Provided here are both an annotated and a comprehensive bibliography focusing on four approaches to contract farming - agribusiness, agricultural economics, agronomics, and social science. Most entries (703 are included in the annotated section and 722 in the comprehensive section) are specific to Africa and to contract farming; however, there are also entries based on non-African experiences (presented for comparative purposes) and some which are not specific to contract farming (presented to illustrate the broader economic context in which contract farming takes place). Among the more important contextual issues covered are credit, extension, socioeconomic differentiation, labor, marketing, technology transfer, intermediaries, national and donor policy, and food security. The bibliographies cite both regular source materials and fugitive materials. Topical indexes are provided for both bibliographies and are organized according to themes developed out of the literature rather than by keywords from existing thesauri (although they also include commodity and geographical references). The index for the comprehensive bibliography is specifically organized to reflect areas of contextual interest.