1. Introduction: Contract Farming and Development Part I: Concepts and Methods
2. Contract farming and the agrarian question: some reflections on contracts and capital
3. New institutional economics perspectives on contract farming
4. Contract farming and the selection problem: an econometric dilemma
5. Meta-analysis of contract farming: towards realist synthesis
6. Contract farming in global value chains and global production networks
7. Political ecology perspectives on contract farming: environmental crises
8. Contract farming and development discourses: a historical overview Part II: Actors
9. Workers and labor regimes in contract farming
10. Cooperatives and contract farming arrangements
11. Contracting farming schemes and the diversity of scale and factions of capital
12. Contract farming, intermediaries and oral enforcement of contracts
13. Diversity of traders: middle-people, petty traders and big traders
14. Supermarkets and contract farming
15. The state and contract farming in Africa Part III: Dynamics
16. Contract farming and terms of the contract: a review of best practices
17. Contracts in the real world
18. Inclusion of smallholders in contract farming
19. Inclusive business models and contract farming
20. Agricultural intensification and informal contract farming
21. Why are so few farmers contracted by retail chains in the Global South?
22. Regional economic development and contract farming
23. Land reform and contract farming
24. Land grabbing and contract farming
25. Land, land rentals and contract farming
26. Plant pathogens, power and contract farming
27. Credit and indebtedness in contract farming
28. Exploitation in contract farming
29. Resistance and contract farming
30. Contract farming and social movements Part IV: Regional Patterns
31. Contract farming in Sub-Saharan Africa
32. Contract farming in South Asia
33. Contract farming in China
34. Contract farming in Latin America
35. Contract farming in Central Asia
36. Contract farming in the Mekong region of Southeast Asia