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Intra-African agricultural trade
The Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) was launched in 2018 as an annual report monitoring the continent’s progress in agricultural trade development.
This first chapter provides an overview of recent issues related to agricultural trade in Africa. Hence, the next section explains how the unprecedented shock of COVID-19 has had a major impact on trade and food security in Africa.
This chapter reviews efforts to estimate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural trade, economic activity, and poverty in Africa, in view of the critical role that agricultural trade plays for millions of poor people.
[This] chapter has several objectives. First, we examine the main trade flows (by product and by destination and origin markets) for the three product groups of interest, with some focus on informal trade.
Combining analyses at the aggregate and sectoral levels offers the richest perspective for understanding Africa’s place in global agricultural trade.
[This] chapter has three objectives. First, it analyses the composition and structure of export flows from the AMU countries, by product and by partner, with a special focus on agricultural products (including agrifood products).
African countries have diversified both their exports and trade partners over the last decade, African agricultural trade still suffers from structural problems as well as exogenous shocks.
Sustained growth and improved governance in Africa’s agriculture sector are critical to meeting the continent’s development goals, including creating decent jobs for youth, nourishing growing cities with healthy foods, promoting resilience, and ca
African agriculture is at an important crossroads.
In this chapter, we use recent data on almost 7,000 smallholders and 395 water user associations (WUAs), along with propensity score matching (PSM) and regression analysis, to quantitatively assess whether membership in producer organizations affe
This chapter discusses progress on 25 of the 38 CAADP RF indicators for which cross-country data are available (Table 16.2)—details of the indicators and aggregate statistics are available in the data tables in Annexes 1–3 of this report.
Seed policies and regulatory reforms
In this chapter, we explore how policies, programs, and regulations related to seed and genetic resources are evolving across Africa, and whether these changes have the potential to improve farmers’ access to improved cultivars and quality seed.
The objective of this chapter is to respond to the question: what can trade policy do for the competitiveness of African agriculture?
This chapter explains the four pillars of digitalization for agriculture (D4Ag) and takes a closer look at two of those pillars that are required to build a strong enabling environment.
This chapter aims to assess the performance of and policy responses to Africa’s rapidly emerging traditional staples value chains, which are dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the processing and trading segments.
This chapter highlights the emerging areas of market failure associated with agricultural mechanization and how SSA governments, including the Ghanaian government, have adapted their strategies over the years in attempting to overcome these market
Food safety is vital for achieving food and nutritional security in Africa.
This chapter discusses how accounting for macroeconomic perspectives when establishing agricultural policies can help African governments ensure that their agricultural sectors become productive, competitive, and lucrative across agricultural valu
The political economy of agricultural policy in Africa: Implications for agrifood system transformation
The intent of this chapter is, first, to review how these components of political economy analysis have affected past agricultural policy decisions and, then, to highlight key points for building a broader empirical research agenda around agrifood