Promoting Competition In The Fertilizer Industry In Africa A Global And Local Approach

Author : Hernandez, Manuel A.,Torero, Maximo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896293410

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Promoting competition in the fertilizer industry in Africa: A global and local approach by Hernandez, Manuel A.,Torero, Maximo Pdf

Given the central role that agriculture plays in the rural economy of Africa, several countries have implemented supply– and demand-driven policies and programs to promote sustainable fertilizer use, with mixed results. However, not much has been said about the market structure or competitive behavior along the supply chain in the highly concentrated fertilizer industry, nor about how this affects fertilizer uptake in the region. Globally, the industry has only a few producers, and African countries are highly and increasingly dependent on imported fertilizer. Locally, fertilizer distribution channels are also characterized by a limited number of market actors, often with a poor dealer network.

Author : Manuel A. Hernandez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1373350001

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Promoting Competition in the Fertilizer Industry in Africa: A Global and Local Approach by Manuel A. Hernandez Pdf

Author : Hernandez, Manuel A.,Espinoza, Alvaro,Berrospi, Maria Lucia,Deconinck, Koen,Swinnen, Johan,Vos, Rob
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The role of market concentration in the agrifood industry by Hernandez, Manuel A.,Espinoza, Alvaro,Berrospi, Maria Lucia,Deconinck, Koen,Swinnen, Johan,Vos, Rob Pdf

The role of market concentration and potential market power exertion in the agri-food industry is a topic of longstanding interest and concern to policymakers, stakeholders, and researchers. This study provides a comprehensive overview of recent trends in market concentration upstream, midstream, and downstream the agri-food industry at the global, regional, and country level, and assesses how and to what extent concentration could be affecting market conduct and performance of food systems in developed and developing countries. The analysis additionally discusses, to the extent detectable, implications of concentration, including vertical and horizontal integration that favor concentration, for food security and nutrition and environmental sustainability. While market concentration in the agri-food industry has increased across most segments, the evidence on market power exertion is inconclusive. Several knowledge and data gaps are identified and additional research is necessary to derive more general conclusions and policy recommendations.

Author : OECD,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264637504

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Background Notes on Sustainable, Productive and Resilient Agro-Food Systems Value Chains, Human Capital, and the 2030 Agenda by OECD,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This report, prepared by FAO and the OECD with inputs from ERIA, IFPRI, IFAD, and WTO, has been submitted to the G20 Presidency of Japan in response to the Presidency’s request for background notes on Sustainable, Productive and Resilient Agro-Food Systems: value chains, human capital, and the 2030 Agenda.

Author : Hernandez, Manuel A.,Paz, Flor,Adeoti, Adetola I.,Adong, Annet,Jumbe, Charles B.L.,Lagat, Kiplimo Araap,Kaiyatsa, Stevier
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Overview of the fertilizer supply chain and market structure in Africa: A cross-country assessment by Hernandez, Manuel A.,Paz, Flor,Adeoti, Adetola I.,Adong, Annet,Jumbe, Charles B.L.,Lagat, Kiplimo Araap,Kaiyatsa, Stevier Pdf

Agriculture continues to play an important role in African economies. According to the African Development Bank, agricultural activities comprise around 15 percent of the continent’s gross domestic product (GDP) and agricultural employment represents around 58 percent of total employment in Sub-Saharan Africa. The region’s population is expected to double to 2 billion people by 2050. Along with expected income growth, the population increase will lead to a substantial rise in food requirements. To meet food demand, FAO estimates that agricultural production would have to increase 112 percent between 2013 and 2050. Meeting this demand will not be easy, as agricultural productivity in SSA remains low and shows slow growth. The vast majority of African smallholder farmers produce low-yield food crops using a minimal set of inputs. Inadequate access to improved inputs such as fertilizers presents a major constraint for smallholders. In the region, more nutrients are removed with harvested crops than are applied with fertilizer or manure, resulting in unsustainable soil nutrient depletion. Improved fertilizer use will help to counteract this trend while substantially improving food security.

Author : Akbar Noman,Joseph E. Stiglitz,Ravi Kanbur
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231550987

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The Quality of Growth in Africa by Akbar Noman,Joseph E. Stiglitz,Ravi Kanbur Pdf

In recent years, concerns about the outcomes and nature of economic growth have given way to a new emphasis on its quality. This volume brings together prominent international contributors to consider a range of interrelated questions concerning the quality of growth in Africa, with a primary focus on sub-Saharan countries. Contributors discuss the measurement of growth, the transformations necessary to sustain it, and issues around equity and well-being. They consider topics such as the distribution of income gains from growth; the extent to which economic growth has resulted in improvements in employment, poverty, and security; structural transformations of the economy and diversification of the sources of growth; environmental sustainability; and management of urbanization. Offering both diagnoses and prescriptions, The Quality of Growth in Africa helps envision a future that goes beyond increasing GDP to ensuring that growth translates into advancements in well-being. Although the book focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, much of the contributors’ incisive analysis has implications for countries outside the region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821368817

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Fertilizer Use in African Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

The good practice guidelines - which form the basis of an interactive policymaker's tool kit included on a CD accompanying the book - relate not only to the more focused problem of encouraging increased fertilizer use by farmers, but also to the broader challenge of creating the type of enabling environment that is needed to support the emergence of efficient, dynamic and commercially viable fertilizer marketing systems."--Jacket.

Author : Devaux, André,Torero, Maximo,Donovan, Jason,Horton, Douglas E.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896292130

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Innovation for inclusive value-chain development by Devaux, André,Torero, Maximo,Donovan, Jason,Horton, Douglas E. Pdf

Governments, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and the private sector have increasingly embraced value-chain development (VCD) for stimulating economic growth and combating rural poverty. Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Successes and Challenges helps to fill the current gap in systematic knowledge about how well VCD has performed, related trade-offs or undesired effects, and which combinations of VCD elements are most likely to reduce poverty and deliver on overall development goals. This book uses case studies to examine a range of VCD experiences. Approaching the subject from various angles, it looks at new linkages to markets and the role of farmer organizations and contract farming in raising productivity and access to markets, the minimum assets requirement to participate in VCD, the role of multi-stakeholder platforms in VCD, and how to measure and identify successful VCD interventions. The book also explores the challenges livestock-dependent people face; how urbanization and advancing technologies affect linkages; ways to increase gender inclusion and economic growth; and the different roles various types of platforms play in VCD.

Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fertilizer industry
ISBN : UCLA:31158009207340

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Fertilizer Situation by United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service Pdf

Author : Andrew Shepherd
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9251057214

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Approaches to linking producers to markets by Andrew Shepherd Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IITA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789781311901

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Challenges and opportunities for enhancing sustainable cowpea production: proceedings of the World Cowpea Conference III held at IITA, 4-8 September 2000 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eric Holt-Gimenez,Raj Patel
Publisher : Food First Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780935028416

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Food Rebellions by Eric Holt-Gimenez,Raj Patel Pdf

Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, authors Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck offer us the real story behind the global food crisis and document the growing trend of grassroots solutions to hunger spreading around the world. Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Holt-Giménez and Patel give a detailed historical analysis of the events that led to the global food crisis and document the grassroots initiatives of social movements working to forge food sovereignty around the world. These social movements and this inspiring book compel readers to confront the crucial question: Who is hungry, why, and what can we do about it?

Author : Albie F. Miles,Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan,Philip Dobie,Anja Gassner,Casey Hoy,Noa Kekuewa Lincoln,Kathleen Merrigan,Jennifer Sowerwine,Samina Raja
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832515464

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Achieving food system resilience & equity in the era of global environmental change by Albie F. Miles,Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan,Philip Dobie,Anja Gassner,Casey Hoy,Noa Kekuewa Lincoln,Kathleen Merrigan,Jennifer Sowerwine,Samina Raja Pdf

Author : Ian Scoones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136534256

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Dynamics and Diversity by Ian Scoones Pdf

Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies from widely different areas reveal how closely bound up soil management is with complex social, cultural and ecological factors - requiring a far more subtly tuned approach to development policy and practice. This work is a study of how the context of livelihood systems has to inform development policy and practice.

Author : Luc J. A. Mougeot,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552502266

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Growing Better Cities by Luc J. A. Mougeot,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM also has titles in French and Spanish.