Publication: Outgrower Schemes
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2018-03
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2018-03-15
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This note provides guidance on the design and implementation of outgrower schemes to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for investors and smallholders. Outgrower schemes have gained prominence as a business model that can benefit both smallholders and investors. Such schemes can improve smallholders’ access to markets, finance, infrastructure, and improved growing techniques; can enhance investors’ access to land, labor, and quality produce; and can improve investor-community relations. Associated risks include overdependency, exploitation of power differences, entrenchment of inequalities, lower-than-expected production, and side-selling. Achieving the potential benefits and minimizing the associated risks requires careful design and implementation.
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“UNCTAD; World Bank. 2018. Outgrower Schemes. Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI)
Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 4;. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29466 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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