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The Farmer and Her Husband: Legal innovations for women in contract farming
Sarah Brewin; Sophia Murphy
发表日期2019-02
出版者IISD
出版年2019
页码12
语种英语
概述Read our policy brief to learn how contracts, if designed with women’s interests in mind, can help foster more balanced relationships between farmers and buyers, as well as female farmers and their husbands.
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  • Contracts are effectively private agreements between parties, but the state has an important role in regulating these agreements to protect weaker parties or third parties who could be harmed by a contract, even if they are not included as contract parties.
  • Women are central to agriculture but are rarely represented in contracts used in contract farming. This paper gives concrete examples of how agricultural contract regulation could be strengthened to protect women’s rights.

Contracts have become an increasingly common tool for governing relationships between farmers and agribusinesses, in a practice known as contract farming. To date, these contracts have not always been designed in a way that protects female farmers’ interests and ensures that their voices are heard. Meanwhile, women do the bulk of the work on farms, and also tend to produce subsistence crops for feeding the household, which are often displaced by crops grown to satisfy the demands of contract farming.

This policy brief, available in English and French, examines options for building protections into contracts to safeguard female farmers’ interests, while also ensuring that women have a greater opportunity to act in their own interests when these contracts are being negotiated.

We focus specifically on four key objectives, namely free and active consent to contracts; incentives for including female farmers as contract parties; contract language ensuring that women have the standing to enforce and benefit from these arrangements; and provisions that require that all parties have a clear understanding of what a contract farming relationship entails.

We provide draft articles for inclusion in contracts that reflect the above objectives. We also suggest complementary legal measures that could support the implementation of these contracts. The draft articles that we include are drawn from, or inspired by, examples from existing laws that set clear rules governing contracts, in order for these agreements ensure the interests and negotiating ability of vulnerable parties.

主题Agriculture, Water and Investment
URLhttps://www.iisd.org/library/farmer-and-her-husband-legal-innovations-women-contract-farming
来源智库International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/57705
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Sarah Brewin,Sophia Murphy. The Farmer and Her Husband: Legal innovations for women in contract farming. 2019.
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