Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future write by Nin-Pratt, Alejandro. This book was released on 2017-12-31. Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The agriculture sector is key for economic and social development, but the sector’s potential has not received enough attention from policy makers and stakeholders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Political transitions, instability, and the resulting refugee crisis have shifted focus away from other pressing development challenges, including slow progress in economic diversification, high unemployment, and persistent high food insecurity and rural poverty. Despite its small contribution to GDP, agriculture is strategic for sustainable development in the MENA countries. Agriculture, for example, is central to achieve food and water security in a region characterized as one of the most food insecure and water scarce in the world. The sector’s role in employment is also central, given the region’s high structural unemployment. However, it will not be possible for MENA countries to develop agriculture without a pathway to structural economic transformation. The region has already started the process of transformation but longstanding challenges remain. This report aims to examine the drivers, constraints, and social implications of agricultural development in MENA and to explore possible cornerstones for new and sustainable development strategies in the context of economic transformation. More specifically, the report provides answers to the following questions: • What development strategies and policies did governments in MENA put in place over the past three decades and how did they affect the performance of agriculture? • How did the structural characteristics of the MENA countries affect agricultural development and the economic transformation process in the region? • What did we learn from the past performance of agriculture? What should be the central elements guiding future agricultural policies? • What are elements of a new and sustainable development strategy in MENA countries? • What is the role of agriculture and agro-industries for development in MENA?
Delving deeper into the agricultural transformation and youth employment nexus
Delving deeper into the agricultural transformation and youth employment nexus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Delving deeper into the agricultural transformation and youth employment nexus write by Adesugba, Margaret Abiodun. This book was released on 2016-04-19. Delving deeper into the agricultural transformation and youth employment nexus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Youth employment is not an entirely new topic for research and policy. Recent estimates from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (2013a) suggest that high and rising unemployment rates among youth remain a key challenge to global development, especially in the developing world. This is particularly important in sub-Saharan Africa where about 85 percent of youth (defined by the ILO as all those between the ages of 15 and 24 years) are poor, 70 percent live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source for their income and subsistence, and 11 million youth are expected to enter the labor market every year for the next decade (World Bank 2014). These characteristics of youth in sub-Saharan Africa justify the centrality of the nexus between youth employment and agriculture in formulating development policy on the continent. At the same time, youth unemployment is currently one of the issues receiving attention at the top of the global development agenda.
Towards a new generation of policies and investments in agricultural water in the Arab region
Towards a new generation of policies and investments in agricultural water in the Arab region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards a new generation of policies and investments in agricultural water in the Arab region write by Borgomeo, Edoardo. This book was released on 2019-12-01. Towards a new generation of policies and investments in agricultural water in the Arab region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Food Dependency in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Food Dependency in the Middle East and North Africa Region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food Dependency in the Middle East and North Africa Region write by Chantal Le Mouël. This book was released on 2018-09-10. Food Dependency in the Middle East and North Africa Region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume covers the Middle-Eastern and North African regions who are increasingly dependent on imports from abroad for covering their domestic food needs. Results of this study show that this import dependence is likely to increase further by 2050. Some sub-regions hardly reach sustainable levels; the Maghreb, Near and Middle-East could import 60 to 70% of their food needs. These results are indicative whatever the considered scenario, but especially if climate change impacts become more severe.
An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa write by Charles Issawi. This book was released on 2013-10-16. An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The economic history of the Middle East and North Africa is quite extraordinary. This is an axiomatic statement, but the very nature of the economic changes that have stemmed directly from the effects of oil resources in these areas has tended to obscure longterm patterns of economic change and the fundamental transformation of Middle Eastern and North African economies and societies over the past two hundred years. In this study Professor Issawi examines and explains the development of these economies since 1800, focusing particularly on the challenge posed by the use and subsequent decline of Western economic and political domination and the Middle Eastern response to it. The book beg ins with an analysis of the effects of foreign intervention in the area: the expansion of trade, the development of transport networks, the influx of foreign capital and resulting integration into international commercial and financial networks. It goes on to examine the local response to these external forces: migration within, to and from the region, population growth, urbanization and changes in living standards, shifts in agricultural production and land tenure and the development of an industrial sector. Professor Issawi discusses the crucial effects of the growth of oil and oil-related industries in a separate chapter, and finally assesses the likely gains and losses in this long period for both the countries in the area and the Western powers. He has drawn on long experience and an immense amount of material in surveying the period, and provides a clear and penetrating survey of an extraordinarily complex area.
