The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa

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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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalWorld Development
Volume37
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)1094-1104
Number of pages11
ISSN0305-750X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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