Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204367 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IFRO Working Paper No. 2013/20
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
Using an original dataset from the Vietnamese catfish sector, we study the impact of vertical coordination options on household welfare and the implications of different stages of vertical coordination for the success of the whole sector. The welfare gain from contract farming and employment on processor-owned estate farms is estimated using a maximum simulated likelihood estimator. Our results show positive welfare effects from participating in contract farming, but not from employment on processor-owned estate farms. The results imply that contract farming presents opportunities for economic growth, but additional effort is required to make the contracts more accessible to smallholders.
Subjects: 
vertical coordination
catfish
maximum simulated likelihood
agri-food transformation
Vietnam
JEL: 
D02
D31
O17
L14
L24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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