The nature and drivers of contracts in cattle herding and management: The case of Ghana
Abstract We study the characteristics of contracts in cattle production in Ghana and explain variations in contract type using agency and transaction cost theory. In their study of pastoral groups, especially those in West Africa, anthropologists have distinguished between two categories of contract...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-06-01
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Series: | Pastoralism |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13570-020-00172-3 |