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Enforcement

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  • Sudha Narayanan

    (International Food Policy Research Institute)

Abstract

Across developing countries, a chief problem with contract farming schemes stems from challenges in enforcing the contract. Weak public institutions for enforcement give latitude to both farmers and firms to renege on the contract and parties inevitably resort to various forms self-regulation and other private means of enforcement to maintain transactional relationships. This significant reliance on self-regulation shapes the very nature of contract farming and its trajectories in different contexts. This contested space where farmers and firms fashion the terms of their relationship is viewed variously as relationship maintenance or everyday forms of resistance by farmers. The chapter highlights that contractual relationships may be viewed more as relationships than as contracts, even as there are limits to how much self-regulation and relationship maintenance can support contractual performance.

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  • Sudha Narayanan, 2025. "Enforcement," Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy,, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:psachp:978-3-031-76487-5_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-76487-5_10
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