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Contract Farming

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the Contract Farming Resource Center, a new web site where information oncontract farming issues is made available to all.

www.fao.org/ag/ags/contract-farming
FAO has developed the Resource Centre web site as a response to the growing interest in contractfarming as a mechanism to coordinate linkages between farmers and agribusiness firms. In fact, this interest has been renewed and strengthened in recent years, in view of theinternational trends that are leading to tighter alignment in agri-food supply chains. Contracting is often seen as the business model of choice for integrated provision of services andinputs to small farmers. The growing demand for information and for technical support on planning and implementing contract farming schemes is being addressed by FAO in a number ofways. In addition to the treatment of contract farming issues in a series of workshops and publications on farmer-to-market linkages, a book and a working paper on contract farminghave been produced. Support to supply chain coordination via contracting is also being provided in FAO field projects.

Contract Farming

The Contract Farming Resource Centre is aknowledge dissemination initiative of FAO. The Centre offers a one-stop web site, which makes available information on contract design, case studies and sample contracts fromdifferent countries, plus a list of frequently asked questions and an extensive collection of bibliographical references.

Users of the Contract Farming Resource Centre are most welcometo send comments and provide contributions to enrich the site’s contents. For further information, contact:

Contract-Farming@fao.org

www.fao.org/ag/ags/contract-farming