Representing reciprocity, reproducing domination: Ideology and the labour process in Latin American contract farming

Clapp, Roger Alex

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“…In his research, Vellema reviewed the social science literature on contract farming from different perspectives, such as political economy, e.g., [12][13][14], and new institutional economics [15]. These perspectives focus on analysing the effects of contractual arrangements on the decision-making by farmers, whether they considered them to be negative or positive.…”

Section: In Search Of An Integrative Methodology: the Example Of Aspamentioning

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What is technography?

Jansen

Vellema

2011

NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

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a b s t r a c tTechnography has recently been proposed as an interdisciplinary methodology for the detailed study of the use of skills, tools, knowledge and techniques in everyday life. This paper argues that technography is a useful methodological approach for the integrative study of social-technical configurations. Technography focuses on how teams or networks of farmers, technicians and engineers, amongst other actors, solve problems. The key characteristics of the technographic approach are discussed, using examples drawn from agricultural production. The concept of performance helps to distinguish technography from some common agronomic as well as social science approaches to technological change. We conclude that technography, which is basically a methodology, needs to be complemented with a social analysis of concrete political, economic and cultural processes that co-evolve with technological change.

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Section: In Search Of An Integrative Methodology: the Example Of Aspamentioning

confidence: 99%

What is technography?

Jansen

Vellema

2011

NJAS: Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences

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“…Similarly, farmers go for contracting as it provides access to assured market and prices, costly inputs, and new technology (Eaton and Shepherd, 2001). But, for the individual farmers, it is not the contract per se but the relationship it represents which is crucial as the divergence between the two may prove crucial in determining the development of contract farming as an institution (Clapp, 1988). Further, it is the context of the contract which can make a whole lot of difference as there are many actors and factors in the environment which influence the working and outcome of contracts.…”

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Multi‐national corporations and agricultural development: a study of contract farming in the Indian Punjab

Singh

2002

J of Intl Development

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This paper examines the rationale, practice and implications of contract farming under the MNCs in vegetable crops in the Indian Punjab from the new institutional economics perspective. It is found that the MNCs deal with relatively large producers, their contracts are biased against the farmer, and the contract crops perpetuate many of the existing problems of the farming sector like high chemical input intensity, unstable future incomes, and social differentiation, though contracting has led to higher farm incomes and labour employment, especially for women. There is an inherent contradiction in the objectives of the contracting parties and that of the local economy and suitable institutions and organisations are not present in the state. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…However, the grower is typically (if not invariably) responsible for all costs of production and it is she/he, not the TNC, who has to bear all risks related to weather, labour and resource quality. It is this peculiar construction of the 'independence' of farmers that is of value to large companies [Clapp, 1988;Morvaridi, 1991;Korovkin, 1992].…”

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Contract farming and environmental risk: The case of Cyprus

Morvaridi

1995

Journal of Peasant Studies

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Representing reciprocity, reproducing domination: Ideology and the labour process in Latin American contract farming

Cited by 74 publications

References 8 publications

What is technography?

What is technography?

Multi‐national corporations and agricultural development: a study of contract farming in the Indian Punjab

Contract farming and environmental risk: The case of Cyprus

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