Excerpt from the report Introduction: The report is intended to furnish needed insight into the legal-economic nature of farming under vertical coordination contracts and the overall legal-institutional milieu in which such contracts are negotiated and performed. The aim is to present the first overview of the legal-economic nature of contract farming and to provide the practicing lawyer and legal scholar with an awareness of economic aspects of contract farming and to give the advising economist and economic researcher a deeper understanding of the legal-institutional framework surrounding vertical coordination contracts.