Jobs from Agriculture in Afghanistan

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dc.creatorLeao, Izabela
dc.creatorAhmed, Mansur
dc.creatorKar, Anuja
dc.date2018-02-05T16:37:04Z
dc.date2018-02-05T16:37:04Z
dc.date2018-02-05
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:31:37Z
dc.descriptionThe agriculture sector can play an important role in poverty reduction and sustained growth in Afghanistan, primarily through job creation, improved productivity, and inclusiveness. Using an 'agricultural jobs lens' and multidimensional approach, this report explores the sector’s direct and indirect roles in explaining the dynamics of rural employment. The report critically examines three dimensions. First, it evaluates the current jobs structure in rural areas and finds that rural jobs are concentrated in cereal agriculture, especially in wheat, which reflects why the returns from jobs in agriculture are low in Afghanistan. Second, it analyzes the inclusive nature of agriculture jobs for vulnerable groups such as women, youth, those who are landless, and the bottom 40 percent of income earners. The analysis finds that although agriculture jobs are inclusive, many women and youth participate as voluntary family workers because they are unable to access markets and/or find paid jobs in the nonfarm sector. Third, the report evaluates the role of public and private sector interventions in supporting job creation in agriculture. It was argued that interventions can work and that there is significant scope to scale them up. Overall, the report exhibits many insights about the state of Afghanistan's rural labor market and provides guidance for formulating effective job-creation policies for the rural population. The key recommendations provide a pathway to achieve sustained and inclusive job growth through diversification toward high-value crops and livestock, linking farmers to markets through continued investment in connectivity and rural infrastructure, a balanced development strategy for an enabling environment for farm and nonfarm sectors, and strengthening the private sector presence in agriculture and its linkage with the public sector to agribusiness. In tandem, it is important to improve the design structure of jobs measurement for rural jobs, especially jobs in agriculture tailored to sectoral context.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifier978-1-4648-1265-1
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29312
dc.identifier10.1596/978-1-4648-1265-1
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1265-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/405324
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relationInternational Development in Focus;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectPRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectENTERPRENEURSHIP
dc.subjectJOBS
dc.subjectYOUTH
dc.subjectAGRIBUSINESS
dc.subjectLABOR
dc.subjectMONITORING AND EVALUATION
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectRURAL ECONOMY
dc.subjectCONNECTIVITY
dc.subjectFRAGILE STATES
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectRURAL EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectEMPOWERMENT
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.titleJobs from Agriculture in Afghanistan
dc.typeBook
dc.typeLivre
dc.typeLibro

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