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Figure 7. Revenue and employment effects from contract farming in export agro-industry

Figure 8. Poverty impact from contract farming, employment and non-participation in export agro-industry

The case study results show that the poorest households mainly benefit through agro-industrial

employment while contract farming is biased toward relatively better-off households with more land

and non-land assets.

Source: Maertens and Swinnen (2009)

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