Manuel GTZ : Contract farming handbook. A practical guide for linking small-scale producers and buyers through business model innovation

German Development Agency (GIZ) on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) issued a contract farming handbook, which provides a practical and process-oriented approach guiding practitioners through sound planning, starting up, consolidation and up-scaling of contract farming (CF) schemes. It gives insights in the selection of an appropriate business model for the farm supply-firm procurement interface based on principles of fairness and transparency. It furthermore provides guiding principles, questions and answers for the development of viable CF business and practicable management plans, mutually beneficial farming contracts and mutually agreed dispute settlement systems.