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Book Synopsis Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential by : World Bank. Africa Regional Office. Sustainable Development Unit
Download or read book Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential written by World Bank. Africa Regional Office. Sustainable Development Unit and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential by : Aubrey Hruby
Download or read book Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential written by Aubrey Hruby and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential by :
Download or read book Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential by : Weltbank
Download or read book Unlocking Africa's Agricultural Potential written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming agriculture in Africa is not simply about helping Africa; it is essential for ensuring global food security. But Africa s agriculture is also of critical importance when it comes to meeting the world s future needs for food and fiber. With the global population expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, food security producing enough food of sufficient quality and making it accessible and affordable for consumers around the world is one of the most important policy objectives .The United Nations estimates that global food demand will double by 2050, with much of that growth driven by developing countries. The world will then need to feed 2.3 billion more people, and given the deep transformation of growth trajectories in low-income countries, these populations will be increasingly affluent and will demand more, different, and better food. But how will the world meet this additional demand? Given Africa s productive potential, it must be a key contributor to feeding the world in the future. But to fully realize that potential will require overcoming many obstacles through innovative and transformative approaches.
Book Synopsis The Role of Agriculture in Development by : Xinshen Diao
Download or read book The Role of Agriculture in Development written by Xinshen Diao and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2007 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in the global environment have led some to question whether the conventional wisdom on the role of agriculture in economic development is still relevant to Africa today. This report critically examines the literature on this issue, taking both the conventional and skeptical views into account. It complements this review with case studies of five African countries. The findings indicate that agricultural growth will play an essential role in promoting overall economic growth and reducing poverty in most of Africa's agrarian-based economies. This holds true even for countries that have the potential for industrial growth driven by natural resources. The results also show that only smallholder food-staple and livestock production can generate broadbased agricultural growth. By demonstrating that Africa's agricultural and food subsector cannot be bypassed, this report contributes to an important ongoing debate in development studies.
Book Synopsis Unlocking Africa's Business Potential by : Landry Signe
Download or read book Unlocking Africa's Business Potential written by Landry Signe and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa welcomes business investment and offers some of the world's highest returns and impacts Africa has tremendous economic potential and offers rewarding opportunities for global businesses looking for new markets and long-term investments with favorable returns. Africa has been one of the world's fastest-growing regions over the past decade, and by 2030 will be home to nearly 1.7 billion people and an estimated $6.7 trillion worth of consumer and business spending. Increased political stability in recent years and improving regional integration are making market access easier, and business expansion will generate jobs for women and youth, who represent the vast majority of the population. Current economic growth and poverty-alleviation efforts mean that more than 43 percent of the continent's people will reach middle- or upper-class status by 2030. Unlocking Africa's Business Potential examines business opportunities in the eight sectors with the highest potential returns on private investment—the same sectors that will foster economic growth and diversification, job creation, and improved general welfare. These sectors include: consumer markets, agriculture and agriprocessing, information and communication technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, tourism, banking, and infrastructure and construction. The book's analysis of these sectors is based on case studies that identify specific opportunities for investment and growth, along with long-term market projections to inform decision-making. The book identifies potential risks to business and offers mitigation strategies. It also provides policymakers with solutions to attract new business investments, including how to remove barriers to business and accelerate development of the private sector.
Book Synopsis Agricultural Research in Africa by : Lynam, John
Download or read book Agricultural Research in Africa written by Lynam, John and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book—prepared by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI), which is led by IFPRI—offers a comprehensive perspective on the evolution, current status, and future goals of agricultural research and development in Africa, including analyses of the complex underlying issues and challenges involved, as well as insights into how they might be overcome. Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is at a prospective tipping point. Growth has accelerated in the past decade, but is unsustainable given increasing use of finite resources. The yield gap in African agriculture is significant, and scenarios on feeding the world’s population into the future highlight the need for Africa to expand its agricultural production. Agricultural Research in Africa: Investing in Future Harvests discusses the need to shift to a growth path based on increased productivity—as in the rest of the developing world— which is essential if Africa is to increase rural incomes and compete in both domestic and international markets. Such a shift ultimately requires building on evolving improvements that collectively translate to deepening rural innovation capacity.
Book Synopsis Unlocking the Potential of Agricultural Research and Development in the Highlands of East and Central Africa by : A. A. Adekunle
Download or read book Unlocking the Potential of Agricultural Research and Development in the Highlands of East and Central Africa written by A. A. Adekunle and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Aziz Elbehri Publisher :Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) ISBN 13 :9789251075302 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (753 download)
Book Synopsis Rebuilding West Africa's Food Potential by : Aziz Elbehri
Download or read book Rebuilding West Africa's Food Potential written by Aziz Elbehri and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth analyses of value chain policies, past and present in West Africa. The book contains a large number of in-depth case studies of food value chains in particular countries, including traditional export commodities (cocoa, cotton), high value exports (mangoes, horticulture) and the most important staple food value chains (oil palm, rice, maize, sorghum and millet and cassava) in the region. It also contains a large number of private and public initiatives, and thematic analyses relating to the role of the private agro-industry and producer organizations and their role as market agents.
Book Synopsis Large-scale Investment in African Farmland and Its Potential Role in Unlocking Smallholder Agricultural Growth by : Rudo Eusebia Makunike
Download or read book Large-scale Investment in African Farmland and Its Potential Role in Unlocking Smallholder Agricultural Growth written by Rudo Eusebia Makunike and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-scale investments (LSI) in farmland, commonly referred to as "land grabs"℗+, have recently attracted widespread interest from various sectors, ranging from academia, activist organisations, donors to national governments. On one hand are proponents who argue that these investments help to fill the investment gap in African agriculture, and on the other are those who see this as nothing more than neo-colonialism. Much of the hype on the LSI in farmland has mostly been negative, with civic activists arguing that these investments disenfranchise smallholder farmers and contribute to their demise. Despite the range of reactions this phenomenon has attracted, there has not been commensurate research producing empirical evidence on whether such investments might contribute to unlocking constraints that hinder growth in the smallholder farming sector or evidence of a mutually beneficial coexistence of the LSI in farmland and smallholder farmers. This study therefore sought to analyse the potential of LSI in farmland for contributing to smallholder agricultural growth. It sought to do this by answering the following three questions: Can LSI in farmland offer opportunities for smallholders' agricultural growth through vertical and horizontal integration and technology transfer or will they further marginalise them? Do LSI in farmland engage with smallholder farmers in their farming operations or do they exclude them? Do LSI in farmland consolidate smallholder farmers and crowd them out of markets? Field work was carried out in Zambia in 2014. Three case studies were analysed and these were selected from the pool of districts with LSI in farmland. The study utilised the Rural Agricultural Livelihood Survey (RALS) data sets for 2012 and 2015 as well as the Land Matrix database for secondary data. A combination of statistical, econometric regression and semiparametric models (particularly propensity score matching and double differencing) was used to analyse the data. The treatment and control groups for propensity score matching were provided by smallholder farmers in districts with investments, and those in districts without investments, respectively. Results revealed that there was no difference in agricultural performance of smallholder farmers in districts with investments and those in districts without investments. There is also no evidence of consolidation or displacement of smallholder farmers from the case studies analysed, except where smallholder farmers had settled on state land assuming it to be communal land as none of the land acquired by the investors was communal land for smallholder farmers. This points to a possible preference for brownfields and greenfields investments by the LSI in farmland to avoid negative publicity associated with displacement of smallholder farmers from communal land. The study also noted that LSI in farmland are contributing to the creation of and access to markets by smallholder farmers, rather than crowding them out. Lastly, the results showed that the investors in the various case studies do engage with smallholder farmers, and that those smallholder farmers who are included in the investors' farming operations perform better in terms of maize gross value, total crops gross value and maize yield per hectare of land than those who are excluded. The study therefore demonstrates that there is potential for LSI in farmland under certain conditions such as provision of input packages and access to technical knowledge through training, to unlock bottlenecks facing smallholder farmers, which may lead to agricultural growth of the latter. This also points to the possibility of LSI in farmland and smallholder farmers to have a reciprocal co-existence. The implication of these results for policy means that there is need for recipient governments to treat each LSI in farmland deal separately as these investments are not homogenous. This calls for critical anlysis of potential benefits versus the costs and where the benefits outweigh the costs, to put in place measures that encourage horizontal and vertical integration of smallholder farmers in the investors' farming operations. In this regard, an enabling policy environment is important to encourage non-state actors to facilitate access to basic productive goods and services necessary for smallholder growth. This could be realised through fostering public-private partnerships between governments and LSI in farmland to ensure government's active involvement in smallholder development. In addition, governments also have to put measures in place to safeguard the rights and interests of smallholder farmers who face the possible threats of displacement in the event of acquisition of occupied state land or acquisition of communal land through negotiations with local chiefs and authorities.
Book Synopsis Unlocking the Potential for Integrated Agricultural Research for Development in the Savanna of West Africa by :
Download or read book Unlocking the Potential for Integrated Agricultural Research for Development in the Savanna of West Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Towards Inclusive Trade by : Scott Andersen
Download or read book Towards Inclusive Trade written by Scott Andersen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa's greatest current comparative advantage lies in its agricultural sector. Most of this agricultural production takes place through emerging agricultural enterprises (EAEs) - i.e., fast growing small and medium-sized enterprises. While some EAEs engage in intra-Africa trade, few have managed to sell their various agricultural products in high-value markets, like the European Union or the United States. To help EAEs grow within their own markets and compete in overseas markets, Sidley Austin LLP established in 2012, the Sidley Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Program. Participants have gained deep understanding of practical trade barriers impeding EAEs' trade. But factors only tangentially related to trade law also constitute key impediments to African exports to high-value markets: for instance, governments' lack of a functioning Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) or Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) regulatory framework, EAEs' inability to comply with higher quality standards in high-value markets, and problems related to negotiation and enforcement of contracts. This paper discusses some of the main market access barriers encountered by Sidley's clients, and practical ways to address these barriers, including through the principles, tools and resources made available by the WTO. It provides a brief overview of the different types of import requirements EAEs must comply with in order to access high-value markets, including tariffs and NTMs such as SPS and TBT requirements. It then highlights ways in which an enterprise can best take advantage of high-value agricultural markets. Finally, it discusses how Sub-Saharan African governments can further facilitate EAEs' ability to bring their products into compliance with food safety and quality standards in high-value markets.
Book Synopsis OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025 by : OECD
Download or read book OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025 provides an assessment of prospects for the coming decade of the agricultural commodity markets across 41 countries and 12 regions, including OECD countries and key agricultural producers, such as India, China, Brazil, the Russian Federation and Argentina.
Download or read book Growing Africa written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report highlights the great potential of the agribusiness sector in Africa by drawing on experience in Africa as well as other regions. The evidence demonstrates that good policies, a conducive business environment, and strategic support from governments can help agribusiness reach its potential. Africa is now at a crossroads, from which it can take concrete steps to realize its potential or continue to lose competitiveness, missing a major opportunity for increased growth, employment, and food security. The report pursues several lines of analysis. First, it synthesizes the large body of work on agriculture and agribusiness in Africa. Second, it builds on a diagnosis of specific value chains. As part of this effort, the value chain for Africa's largest and fastest-growing food import, rice, is benchmarked in Senegal and Ghana against Thailand's rice value chain. Third, 170 agribusiness investments by the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) in Africa and Southeast Asia are analyzed to gain perspective on the elements of success and failure. Fourth, the report synthesizes perspectives from the private sector through interviews with 23 leading agribusiness investors and a number of other key informants. In conclusion, the report offers practical policy advice based on the experience of countries from within and outside Africa. The huge diversity of Africa's agro-ecological, market, and business environments, however, necessarily means that each country (and indeed regions within countries) will need to adapt the broad guidance provided here to the local context. Annex 1, concerning the rice value chain, was authored by John Orchard, Tim Chancellor, Roy Denton, Amadou Abdoulaye Fall, and Peter Jaeger. Annex 2, containing interviews with 23 leading agribusiness players in Africa, was authored by Peter White.
Book Synopsis Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant by : Michael L. Morris
Download or read book Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant written by Michael L. Morris and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries--Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia--the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to.
Download or read book The New Harvest written by Calestous Juma and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa can feed itself in a generation and can help contribute to global food security. To achieve this Africa has to define agriculture as a force in economic growth by advancing scientific and technological research, investing in infrastructure, fostering higher technical training, and creating regional markets.
