Transforming Agriculture in South Asia

Ashok K. Mishra is Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Chair, Morrison School of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.Anjani Kumar is Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India.Pramod K. Joshi is former Senior Advisor to the Director General and Director–South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, India.

• 1. Introduction Part I: Understanding the Agricultural Sector, Transformation, Value Chains and Contract Farming 2. Agriculture in South Asia: Trends and Prospects 3. Agriculture on the Rise in Bangladesh: The Future Role of Value Chains 4. Structural Transformation and Sources of Growth in South Asian Agriculture 5. The Agricultural Sector in Nepal: Scope of Improvement and Value Chains 6. Financing Agricultural Value Chains 7. Role of Transaction Costs in Modern Food Retail Chains: Empirical Evidence from India Part II: Case Studies in Contract Farming 8. Contract Farming in Lentils and Rice Seed Production: Case Studies from Nepal 9. Formal Versus Informal Milk Value Chains in Bangladesh: Trade-Offs Between Price and Food Safety 10. Durum Wheat Value Chain in Pakistan: Scanning Current Picture and Exploring Future Potential 11. Contract Farming and Farm Performance: Evidence from Brinjal Cultivation in Bangladesh 12. Value Chains in Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh 13. Mango Value Chains in India 14. Moving towards Sustainability: An Evaluation of Indian Coffee in the Global Food Value Chain Part III: Contract Farming, Storage and Technical Efficiency 15. Indian Agriculture and Agro-Processing in the Global Value Chains 16. Harvesting the Booming Potential: The Case of Maize Value Chain in Pakistan 17. Storage and Structural Factors Determining the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture 18. Agri-Commodity Futures and Value Chains 19. Contract Farming and Its Impact on Fertilizer Usage: Evidence from India 20. Assessing and Explaining the Technical Efficiency of Contract and Non-Contract Farms in India 21. Who Quits and Who Sustains Participation in Supermarket Supply Chain? An Insight from Aditya Birla More Supply Chain

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