Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contract farming in context -- Researching the potentials and limitations of contract farming in sub-Saharan Africa / Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Niels Fold, Arne Henningsen, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen -- Contract farming : fluid concept on firm grounds / Lotte Isager, Niels Fold, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen -- Overview of the agricultural sector in Tanzania / Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Daniel Mpeta, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Niels Fold -- Contract farming and value chain dynamics -- Evolving governance structures and contract farming in the tobacco value chain in Tanzania / Bahati Ilembo, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Marianne Nylandsted Larsen -- Successes and barriers regarding small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in the value chain for sunflower in Tanzania : does contract farming reduce value chain coordination problems for SMEs? / Daniel Mpeta, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Batimo Sebyiga, Niels Fold -- Contract farming and upgrading possibilities for smallholder sugarcane growers / Thobias E. Nsindagi, Jennifer K. Sesabo -- Coordination and upgrading in agricultural value chains : contract farming arrangements in the Tanzanian cotton sector / Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Paul Maganga Nsimbila -- Contract farming and household economics -- Tobacco contract farming in the urambo district of Tanzania : which farmers obtain inputs on credit and which buy them for cash? / Bahati M. Ilembo, Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Arne Henningsen -- Income diversification of small-scale sugarcane contract farmers in kilombero and Turiani, Tanzania / Thobias Nsindagi, Jennifer K. Sesabo, Arne Henningsen -- Alternative aspects of contract farming -- Trusting your partner? : sunflower contract farming in central Tanzania / Frederik Brønd -- Contract farming in a covert sphere : conspiracy theories as counter-knowledge about sugarcane production in Tanzania / Lotte Isager -- Does contract farming empower smallholder agricultural producers? : lessons from sunflower contract farming in Tanzania / Joseph Andrew Kuzilwa, Daniel Mpeta -- Embedding the global tobacco value chain in social and environmental concerns : contract farming and corporate social responsibility projects in the Tanzanian tobacco sector / Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, Jonas Gillett.