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Transcript of Brussels Briefing 48: Thomas Allen "Employment opportunities in West African food systems"
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Strengthening rural livelihoods in the face of rapid urbanisation in Africa
Employment opportunities in West African food systems
Thomas Allen
Brussels, Belgium, 20 March 2017
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Urbanisation and cities
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Urbanisation and cities
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Urbanisation and cities
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3 The regional opportunities
4 Key messages
2 Food: The largest private sector
1 Changing demand
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27%
16%
2%
37%
17%
Fruits & Vegetables Meat & Fish Dairy Cereals Others
Diversifying diets
31%
22%4%
26%
17%
Urban Rural
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Beverages4%
Cereals27%
Unprocessed foods30%
Processed foods39%
Demand for convenience
Urban
36%
Rural
41%
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3 The regional opportunities
4 Key messages
1 Changing demand2 Food: The largest private sector
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Size of the food economy
c178
USD billion(2010)
36% ofregional GDP
32 USD billion
(2010)
GDP Ghana
The region’s largest private sector
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Food imports = 7%…
Domestic production93%
Imports7%
178 USD billion
(2010)
The domestic food economy is 16x bigger than the agricultural export sector
11 USD billion
(2010)
Agricultural exports
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4 Key messages
1 Changing demand2 Food: The largest private sector
3 The regional opportunities
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Economic diversification
Agriculture60%
Non agricul-tural40%
178 USD billion
(2010)
Increasingly non
agricultural
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Employment structure in the food economy
Farming60%
Food processing8%
Transport, marketing and retail
30%
Food catering2%
13 m FTE jobs 19 m
FTE jobs
Source: Tchirley et al. (2016) and author’s calculations
Nigeria in 2016
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Farming Farm labor Food processing Food marketing Food catering0
22.5
45
67.5
90
112.5
15-24 25-40 Women
Source: Tchirley et al. (2016)
%Nigeria in 2016
Shar
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gro
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No youth-specific activities
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Different regional and local contexts
Concentration of urban demand
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Different regional and local contexts
Sour
ce: K
arg
et a
l. (2
016)
Concentration of urban demand
Ouagadougou
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1 Changing demand2 Food: The largest private sector
3 The regional opportunities
4 Key messages
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• Emerging opportunities in the West African food economy
• Post-harvest segments of the food value chains will experience the fastest growth
• Need to better understand the local contexts and spatial dimensions of job creation
Key messages
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Thank you for your attention