Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa

This Jobs Solutions Note identifies approaches for development practitioners and policymakers to better integrate poor smallholders into agricultural value chains. Based on curated knowledge and evidence for a specific topic and relevant to jobs, t...

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Main Author: Christiaensen, Luc
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/766801588571083740/Agriculture-Jobs-and-Value-Chains-in-Africa
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spelling okr-10986-336932021-05-25T10:54:44Z Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa Christiaensen, Luc EMPLOYMENT VALUE CHAIN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES FOOD SECURITY LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AQUACULTURE SMALLHOLDERS STAPLE CROP This Jobs Solutions Note identifies approaches for development practitioners and policymakers to better integrate poor smallholders into agricultural value chains. Based on curated knowledge and evidence for a specific topic and relevant to jobs, the Jobs Solutions Notes are not intended to be exhaustive; they provide key lessons, solutions and approaches synthesized from the experiences of the World Bank Group and partners. This Note develops a conceptual framework to guide policy choices in using inclusive agricultural value chain development for better job creation in the rural space. As the agricultural iVCD agenda is still nascent and rigorous empirical evidence incipient, it refrains from nuts-and-bolts operational guidance on how to do this. 2020-05-04T20:53:46Z 2020-05-04T20:53:46Z 2020-04-29 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/766801588571083740/Agriculture-Jobs-and-Value-Chains-in-Africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33693 English Jobs Notes;No. 9 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic EMPLOYMENT
VALUE CHAIN
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
FOOD SECURITY
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
AQUACULTURE
SMALLHOLDERS
STAPLE CROP
spellingShingle EMPLOYMENT
VALUE CHAIN
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
FOOD SECURITY
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
AQUACULTURE
SMALLHOLDERS
STAPLE CROP
Christiaensen, Luc
Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa
relation Jobs Notes;No. 9
description This Jobs Solutions Note identifies approaches for development practitioners and policymakers to better integrate poor smallholders into agricultural value chains. Based on curated knowledge and evidence for a specific topic and relevant to jobs, the Jobs Solutions Notes are not intended to be exhaustive; they provide key lessons, solutions and approaches synthesized from the experiences of the World Bank Group and partners. This Note develops a conceptual framework to guide policy choices in using inclusive agricultural value chain development for better job creation in the rural space. As the agricultural iVCD agenda is still nascent and rigorous empirical evidence incipient, it refrains from nuts-and-bolts operational guidance on how to do this.
format Brief
author Christiaensen, Luc
author_facet Christiaensen, Luc
author_sort Christiaensen, Luc
title Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa
title_short Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa
title_full Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa
title_fullStr Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa
title_full_unstemmed Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa
title_sort agriculture, jobs, and value chains in africa
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/766801588571083740/Agriculture-Jobs-and-Value-Chains-in-Africa
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