The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa
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The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa. / Bolwig, Simon; Gibbon, Peter; Jones, Edward Samuel.
In: World Development, Vol. 37, No. 6, 2009, p. 1094-1104.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa
AU - Bolwig, Simon
AU - Gibbon, Peter
AU - Jones, Edward Samuel
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming for smallholders and of adoption of organic agricultural farming methods in a tropical African context. The comparison in both cases is with farming systems that are "organic by default." Survey data from a large organic coffee contract farming scheme in Uganda are reported and analyzed using a standard OLS regression and a full information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimate of the Heckman selection model. The analysis finds that, controlling for a range of factors, there are positive revenue effects both from participation in the scheme and, more modestly, from applying organic farming techniques.
AB - The paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming for smallholders and of adoption of organic agricultural farming methods in a tropical African context. The comparison in both cases is with farming systems that are "organic by default." Survey data from a large organic coffee contract farming scheme in Uganda are reported and analyzed using a standard OLS regression and a full information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimate of the Heckman selection model. The analysis finds that, controlling for a range of factors, there are positive revenue effects both from participation in the scheme and, more modestly, from applying organic farming techniques.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Afrika
KW - organic farming
KW - profitability
KW - coffe
KW - Uganda
KW - Africa
U2 - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.09.012
DO - 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.09.012
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 1094
EP - 1104
JO - World Development
JF - World Development
SN - 1873-5991
IS - 6
ER -
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