Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt

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dc.creatorBreisinger, Clemens
dc.creatorRaouf, Mariam
dc.creatorThurlow, James
dc.creatorWiebelt, Manfred
dc.date2019-03-21
dc.date2024-06-21T09:06:33Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:06:33Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:17:59Z
dc.descriptionThis paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects. These impacts all matter for household incomes, poverty, and dietary diversity. Results for Egypt show that agricultural value chain development generates economy-wide growth as well as growth in the agri-food system, but the impacts on employment suggest that agricultural growth can create new (and better) jobs in and beyond the agri-food system, but not necessarily more jobs. The results also show that productivity-driven agricultural growth in all crops is pro-poor and improves nutrition. However, potential adverse effects of livestock-led growth show that growth acceleration in single sectors can be negative, highlighting the importance of a systems analysis or, in our case, an economy-wide analysis. It is clear that no single sub-sector is best at achieving all the development outcomes examined. Moreover, the ranking of value chains by their development outcomes differs across sub-national regions. As such, results from this paper may provide useful decision support for the government and its development partners to select value chains depending on their priority development outcomes.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146299
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/100394
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/1024319809
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134427
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceBreisinger, Clemens; Raouf, Mariam; Thurlow, James; and Wiebelt, Manfred. 2019. Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt. MENA RP Working Paper 18. Washington, DC and Cairo, Egypt: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146299
dc.subjectvalue chains
dc.subjectsupply chains
dc.subjecteconomic growth
dc.subjecteconomic development
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjectagricultural growth
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectcomputable general equilibrium models
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.titleBeyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt
dc.typeWorking Paper

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