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ISBN978-1-78431-581-8
来源ID17617IIED
Contract farming and informality: drivers and governance responses in Zambia and Zimbabwe
Stephen Kabwe; Jackqeline Mutambara; Kingstone Mujeyi; Emma Blackmore; Bill Vorley; Xiaoxue Weng
发表日期2018
出版者IIED
出版年2018
语种英语
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Cotton production in Zambia and Zimbabwe plays a key role in the countries’ agricultural sector and in the lives of millions of farmers who depend on it as a cash crop. Yet, in both countries, cotton production is at one of its lowest levels in recent years. One dominant cause for declining production is informal trading, manifested in side-trading, that circumvents the dominant institutional model of contract farming.

Through a three-year research collaboration between IAPRI (Indaba Agricultural Policy and Research Institute), AEPRIC (Agricultural Economics, Policy Research and Information Centre) and IIED, we examined the informal cotton trade and its impacts on the economic, social and environmental performance of the cotton sectors in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Our findings illustrate the drivers and consequences of side-trading, including the short term positive impacts on livelihoods and longer term negative impacts of declining crop quality, yields and soil fertility. We show that regulatory frameworks around contract farming have struggled to deal with growing market competition, over-capacity and side-trading. At the same time, farmers are becoming increasingly distrustful of sector institutions and ginning companies. We conclude by presenting two options for institutional reform which would reverse this trend, minimise informality and bring the cotton sector back from the verge of collapse.

主题Sustainable markets ; Food and agriculture
区域Zambia ; Zimbabwe
URLhttps://pubs.iied.org/17617IIED/?c=susmkt&p=2
来源智库International Institute for Environment and Development (United Kingdom)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/319343
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Stephen Kabwe,Jackqeline Mutambara,Kingstone Mujeyi,et al. Contract farming and informality: drivers and governance responses in Zambia and Zimbabwe. 2018.
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