Making globalization work better for the poor through contract farming
By: edited by Sununtar Setboonsarng, Principal Natural Resources and Agriculture Economist in the Southeast Asia, Department of the Asian Development Bank, PingSun Leung, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Contributors: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9789292546120; 9789292546137
Subjects: Rural poor; Farm produce; Globalization; Agricultural contracts
Notes: "Publication stock no. BKK135593-2"--Page facing title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: Global partnership in poverty reduction / S. Setboonsarng; title: Overview of contract farming in Thailand / S. Sriboonchitta and A. Wiboonpongse; title: Methodology and empirical methods to mitigate selection bias / P.S. Leung and J. Cai; title: Contract farming and poverty reduction, the case of organic rice contract farming in Thailand / J. Cai, S. Setboonsarng, and P.S. Leung; title: Rice contract farming in Lao PDR / S. Setboonsarng, A. Stefan, and P.S. Leung; title: Rice contract farming in Cambodia / J. Cai [and three others]; title: Standards and agricultural trade in Asia / D. Giovannucci and T. Purcell; title: Food safety and information and communication technology traceability systems, lessons from Japan for developing countries / J. Sakai, S. Setboonsarng, and L. Vancura; title: International supply chain management through contract farming, experience of Japanese firms in selected Asian countries / S. Setboonsarng; title: Is a written or verbal contract better for farmers? case study of asparagus contract farming in Thailand / T. Munjaiton, J. Cai, S. Setboonsarng, and P.S. Leung; title: International social contract farming, case of banana export from Thailand to Japan / T. Munjaiton, S. Setboonsarng, and P.S. Leung.