Agrifood systems play a potentially central role in driving economic growth and transformation in low- and lower-middle-income countries. From a broader economic perspective, an agrifood system can be defined and measured as GDP and employment of primary agriculture and agrifood-related processing, trade, and transport sectors aggregated across value chains.
To better understand the transformative role of agricultural value chains and agriculture’s environmental impacts, IFPRI researchers have analyzed relevant economic and environmental data for a range of African and Asian countries. By analyzing detailed national accounts, trade, agricultural and nonagricultural production and consumption, and environmental data or estimates the analysis reveals the unique structural features of countries’ agrifood systems and the role of agrifood value chains in sustainable economic transformation.
