Description: This book analyses the extent to which contract farming (CF) is helping small farmers to access markets and meet increasingly stringent requirements - not only of modern food manufacturers, retailers, exporters and food service firms, but also in non-food sectors such as biofuels and forestry. In addition, the book seeks to clarify differences in the functionality of contracts depending on commodity, market, technology, public policies and country circumstances through nine diverse case study from developing regions. (fao.org)