Contractual arrangements between buyers and sellers are often acknowledged as a tool to manage market and other related risks for both actors. Interest in contract farming as a mechanism to coordinate linkages between farmers and agribusiness firms has grown recently, in view of the international trends towards tighter alignment in agrifood supply chains. FAO has been responding to the growing demand for information and technical support on planning and implementing contract farming operations through providing a clearinghouse for consolidating relevant information on the topic Resources provided by the Contract Farming resource center include: library, toolkit, examples of contracts, etc.