The rise of agrifood technopoles in the Middle East and North Africa
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The present study describes the main programmes and strategies to concentrate agribusiness development in MENA countries. The study of the examples of agribusiness competitiveness initiatives undertaken in the region places an emphasis on the new elements introduced in the revised agro-industrial policy, the common and distinctive features of the territorial agro-industrial programmes across the region, and the different level of maturity or sophistication achieved by the different initiatives. MENA’s recent agro-industrial plans based on the food pole concept represents a new generation of policy models that introduces six major changes. First, there has been a transition from top-down to bottom-up agro-industrial policies. Second, innovation and FDI attraction have been pinpointed as a key driver for agro-industrial development in MENA countries.