The growth of organic farming practices in the last few decades is continuing to stimulate the international debate about this alternative food market. As a p art of a PhD project r esearch about embeddedness in Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), this paper focuses on the promotional aspects of organic farms websites from the Madrid region. As a theoretical tool, some knowledge categories drawn ...

Abstract Improving the productivity of smallholder farmers particularly in developing countries has taken different approaches. Contract farming is one approaches employed to increase farmers’ productivity. However, agricultural outcomes have not been consistent with contract countries. Hence, we examined effect on cassava Iseyin Local Government Area Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data were colle...

Abstract Smallholder farmers’ preferences for participation in contract farming may take the form of proportional data––whereby farmers only sell some proportions or fractions their output to contractors. We analyze determinants zero (potential corner solution) and amounts milk that through farming, using dairy data from Zambia. Bayesian linear, linear probability, hurdle models are compared wi...

Arable farming is an intrinsically risky enterprise. Therefore, managing risks and uncertainties in agriculture very important as it affects all sectors of the economy a developing country like Pakistan. To do so, whole suite options available to community safeguard against any type risk. However, farmers’ behavior concurrent adoption multiple risk management tools largely ignored previous stud...

<p align="justify">The purpose of this study is to describe how the process implementing profit sharing carried out by agricultural communities in District. District Anggeraja. Enrekang and whether profit-sharing model following muzara’ah contract Islam. There are three main topics discussed article, namely (1) The potential for shallot farming (2) mechanism (3) economic impact on communi...

Specialized suppliers to supermarkets in rural Java showed that smallholder farmers could engage contract farming with the rise of retail modernization. This paper examines whether they have sustained recent decline modernized stores. Our field survey, based on cases reported by World Bank 2006, provides following findings: (1) Some failed sustain due growers’ hold-up problems; (2) The prevent ...