Network activities 2020-2022
Before the official launch of the Contract Farming Initiative in 2023, we undertook a number of foundational activities, listed here in this post.
Conceptualizing contract farming in the global land grab debate
A chapter by Contract Farming Initiative members Mark Vicol and Helena Perez Nino appears in the recently published Routledge Handbook of Land and Resource Grabbing. In the chapter, Vicol and Perez Nino aim to clarify conceptualizations of contract farming in the global land grab debate, given contract farming’s ambivalent position in the land grabbing literature…
Contract farming is everywhere, but how does it affect agrarian relations in the Global South?
We are excited to launch the Contract Farming Initiative to push forward and provide a platform for critical scholarship on contract farming. This initiative was born out of a collaboration that bought CF scholars together in a recent special issue of the Journal of Agrarian Change. We warmly invite other scholars, activists and writers to…