Abstract

OROZCO SUAREZ, Christian Rafael. Large agribusiness corporations and contract farming: Theoretical approaches. La Granja [online]. 2023, vol.37, n.1, pp.58-74. ISSN 1390-8596.  https://doi.org/10.17163/lgr.n37.2023.05.

Contract farming constitutes a long-term productive and commercial modality in time and space; for this reason, it is essential to approach the different interpretations of its determinants. In this sense, this article analyzes the theoretical and interpretative contributions that the main currents and schools of economic thought have raised about the factors that have decisively contributed to the development of the productive and commercial modality of the contract in agriculture, especially from the perspective of the large agro-industrial corporations. The methodology applied in this research is the literature review. The investigated currents are the French, the Anglo-Saxon, and the Latin American. In the end, it is concluded that there is a re-functionalization of the agrarian economy through contract farming; contracts are yet another business strategy for sourcing agricultural supplies; and the sources that large agro-industrial corporations must promote this productive and commercial modality are market, contractual-informal and technological.

Keywords : Contract farming; vertical integration; large agribusiness corporations; family farming.

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