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Risk pooling cooperative games in contract farming

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  • Zhanwen Shi
  • Erbao Cao

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Contract farming can be an effective measure to deal with agricultural production risks. This study provides a two‐stage stochastic programming model to analyze farmers’ cooperation in the context of contract farming under uncertainty. It provides a fair cost allocation policy for a coalition of farmers using a stochastic linear duality approach. A fair cost allocation implies that no subset of farmers has an incentive to leave the coalition. Thus, a fair allocation policy ensures the stability of a coalition. Meanwhile, the risk pooling game is shown to have population monotonicity, which means that, every time a coalition adds a new member, each farmer within the coalition will incur a smaller cost. Hence, the population monotonicity gives an incentive for coalition expansion. Our results not only provide a simple way to design fair cost allocation policies for collaboration strategies in contract farming, but also play an important role in the sustainable development of farmers’ coalitions. L'agriculture contractuelle peut être une mesure efficace pour faire face aux risques de production agricole. Cette étude propose un modèle de programmation stochastique en deux étapes pour analyser la coopération des agriculteurs dans le contexte de l'agriculture contractuelle en situation d'incertitude. Elle fournit une politique de répartition équitable des coûts pour une coalition d'agriculteurs utilisant une approche de dualité linéaire stochastique. Une répartition équitable des coûts implique qu'aucun sous‐ensemble d'agriculteurs n'est incité à quitter la coalition. Ainsi, une politique d'allocation équitable assure la stabilité d'une coalition. Pendant ce temps, il est démontré que le jeu de mise en commun des risques présente une monotonie de la population, ce qui signifie que chaque fois qu'une coalition ajoute un nouveau membre, chaque agriculteur au sein de la coalition encourra un coût moindre. Par conséquent, la monotonie de la population incite à l'expansion de la coalition. Nos résultats fournissent non seulement un moyen simple de concevoir des politiques de répartition équitable des coûts pour les stratégies de collaboration dans l'agriculture contractuelle, mais jouent également un rôle important dans le développement durable des coalitions d'agriculteurs.

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  • Zhanwen Shi & Erbao Cao, 2021. "Risk pooling cooperative games in contract farming," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 69(1), pages 117-139, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:canjag:v:69:y:2021:i:1:p:117-139
    DOI: 10.1111/cjag.12263
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