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Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food security

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The focus of this paper is the role played in rural contexts by contract farming agreements between smallholders and private investors. These contracts can take different forms, but in general are agreements under which producers commit to supply produce to a buyer firm. They are—at least on paper—at the centre of agrarian policies in Mozambique, through the Strategic Plan for the Development of the Agricultural Sector 2011-2020.

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  • Cecilia Navarra, 2017. "Contracts between smallholders and private firms in Mozambique and their implications on food security," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2017-197, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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