The political economy of contract farming in China's agrarian transition

• Main Author: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: contract farming; agrarian transition; rural China; agribusiness; family farming; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1040; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2293/viewcontent/The_Political_Economy_of_Contract_Farming_in_China_s_Agrarian_Tra.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How does rural China’s political economy determine the motivations and constraints that drive small farmers and agribusiness companies into contract farming and shape its practice and impact? This paper identifies three distinctive features of contract farming in China—varied impact on rural inequal...