Making the most of agricultural investment: A survey of business models that provide opportunities for smallholders
This comprehensive report explores a range of business models that can be used to structure agricultural investments in lower and middle-income countries, and that provide an alternative to large-scale land acquisitions. It discusses the business models - often collaborative arrangements between investors and local smallholders and communities - under six broad categories: contract farming, management contracts, tenant farming and sharecropping, joint ventures, farmer-owned business and upstream/downstream business links.