Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt - 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 Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt write by Breisinger, Clemens. This book was released on 2019-03-21. Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects. These impacts all matter for household incomes, poverty, and dietary diversity. Results for Egypt show that agricultural value chain development generates economy-wide growth as well as growth in the agri-food system, but the impacts on employment suggest that agricultural growth can create new (and better) jobs in and beyond the agri-food system, but not necessarily more jobs. The results also show that productivity-driven agricultural growth in all crops is pro-poor and improves nutrition. However, potential adverse effects of livestock-led growth show that growth acceleration in single sectors can be negative, highlighting the importance of a systems analysis or, in our case, an economy-wide analysis. It is clear that no single sub-sector is best at achieving all the development outcomes examined. Moreover, the ranking of value chains by their development outcomes differs across sub-national regions. As such, results from this paper may provide useful decision support for the government and its development partners to select value chains depending on their priority development outcomes.
Transformation to low carbon agrifood value chains in Egypt
Transformation to low carbon agrifood value chains in Egypt - 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 Transformation to low carbon agrifood value chains in Egypt write by Abdel Monem, M.. This book was released on 2024-02-06. Transformation to low carbon agrifood value chains in Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study presents opportunities for transformation to low carbon agrifood value chains through scaling up successful climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices. The study draws upon data from 173 Farmer Field Schools (FFS) conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as part of the IFAD-funded ‘Sustainable Agriculture Investments and Livelihoods’ (SAIL) Project, implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MoALR) in Egypt. The study assesses the potential for increasing farmers’ incomes, decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and improving water-use efficiency (WUE) following the implementation of CSA interventions. It also analyses sustainable value chain production models for selected crops, with the goal of establishing climate-smart value chains that are economically feasible and present financial investment opportunities for small investors.
Climate-smart policies to enhance Egypt's agrifood system performance and sustainability
Climate-smart policies to enhance Egypt's agrifood system performance and sustainability - 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 Climate-smart policies to enhance Egypt's agrifood system performance and sustainability write by Santos Rocha, J.. This book was released on 2023-12-08. Climate-smart policies to enhance Egypt's agrifood system performance and sustainability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, heat waves in Egypt are increasingly severe and frequent, raising the already high evaporation rate, accelerating crop transpiration, increasing soil aridity and elevating water requirements for both human and agricultural consumption in a country where water is imported. The forecasted spike in rainfall variability will affect flow of the Nile River, increasing both drought and high-flow years. While Egypt must produce more food for its rapidly growing population and confront high levels of child malnutrition, agricultural performance is slowing due to inefficient use of land, labour, water and energy along with environmental degradation and limited access to new technology, all of which favour increased incidence of pests and disease. Having tested climate smart agriculture (CSA) in four of Egypt’s most significant value chains – dairy, dates, maize and wheat – the authors demonstrate that CSA practices, technologies and policies will increase agricultural productivity and incomes, strengthen resilience to climate change and improve mitigation of its effects. These important, evidence-based findings have bearing well beyond Egypt’s borders. This publication is part of the Country Investment Highlights series under the FAO Investment Centre's Knowledge for Investment (K4I) programme.
World Development Report 2020
World Development Report 2020 - 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 World Development Report 2020 write by World Bank. This book was released on 2019-11-19. World Development Report 2020 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. And trade conflicts among large countries could lead to a retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains examines whether there is still a path to development through GVCs and trade. It concludes that technological change is, at this stage, more a boon than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty provided that developing countries implement deeper reforms to promote GVC participation; industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies; and all countries revive multilateral cooperation.
Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of GVCs on Economic Development
Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of GVCs on Economic Development - 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 Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of GVCs on Economic Development write by World Trade Organization. This book was released on 2017. Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of GVCs on Economic Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report is about a huge contribution to our deepening understanding of what the global economy really means and how it is changing. The report helpfully distinguishes elements of an economy that are tradable and the large set that are non-tradable. Clearly the tradables set is expanding with the support of enabling technology. The report argues that connectivity in the networks that define the evolving architecture of GVCs is important. This Global Value Chain Development Report is the result of intensive and detailed work in assembling and analyzing data on the structure of economies and on how they are linked. It creates a much clearer picture of evolving patterns of independence. It also presents a much clearer picture of comparative advantage. --Publisher description.
