Contractual agreements between smallholder farmers and agribusiness companies have gained in importance many developing countries. While productivity income effects of contracting the small farm sector were analyzed previous studies, labor market employment are not yet well understood. This is an important research gap, especially against background continued population growth structural transf...

Concerns about the sustainability of an ageing farming population have brought interest in so called entry-exit issues in policy circles. Policy interventions to date have offered limited scope in stimulating farm transfer in UK, however, the increase in unconventional tenures which include partnerships, share farming and contract farming (collectively called joint ventures) would appear to off...