Jointly published by IFPRI, ILRI and Wageningen University

Since the early 1990s, contract farming as a market institution in the poultry industry in Bangladesh has evolved along with the expansion of commercial poultry farming. Apart from classical contract farming within vertically integrated enterprises, there are also formal and informal contract...

In this paper, the hypothesis that performance of trading firms depends on their assets (physical, financial, human capital and social capital) and trading practices is tested with data from a sample of 131 live animal traders in 38 rural Ethiopian highland markets. Most traders used own capital...

Published jointly by IFPRI, ILRI and Wageningen University

Free entry and exit from an industry is one of the indicators of competitive behaviour of that industry. It is alleged that exit from Bangladesh's poultry industry is high. Based on a survey of exited firms, nature and causes of exit were analysed and their implications for policy for the...