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FONSECA SANCHEZ, Juan Carlos  e  GUTIERREZ S, Alejandro. Agricultura por contrato: impactos económicos e institucionales en el municipio Rangel del estado Mérida, Venezuela. CDC [online]. 2017, vol.34, n.94, pp.031-048. ISSN 2443-468X.

Contract farming or agricultural contracts is  a vertical coordination mechanism, which is based on the theoretical framework of economic neoinstitutionalism. It is a form of market coordination that can help to achieve development goals if consistent public policies are implemented. The main objectives of this paper is to know theperception of the involved actors and to analyze theeconomic, institutional and local development effects of the agricultural contract between producers ofpotatoes for industrial use, at Rangel Municipality of Merida state Venezuela and the company PepsiCo Foods SCA. To achieve these objectives a structuredinterview was applied to the producers under contract and the contracting company

Palavras-chave : Contract Farming; Economic Neoinstitutionalism; New Rurality; Local Development; Industrial Potato; Venezuela.