Producing industrial pigs in southwestern China: The rise of contract farming as a coevolutionary process

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Forrest Qian, ZENG, Hongping
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: agribusiness; agro-industrialization; China; coevolution; contract farming; pork; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3458; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4715/viewcontent/Producing_industrial_pigs_in_southwestern_China_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The literature on contract farming (CF) has to date focused on how outside capital uses CF to vertically integrate non-capitalist producers into agro-industrial value chains. We argue that in places where multiple dynamics of capitalist growth co-exist, CF relationships can also emerge between diffe...