Towards a More Competitive, Inclusive, and Resilient Agrifood Sector in Argentina
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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Argentina’s agrifood sector drives
both prosperity and crisis. While agrifood generates
essential foreign currency earnings, tax revenue and
employment, the sector’s vulnerability to external shocks
can wreak havoc on the larger economy. This agriculture
sector review addresses the economic, social, and
environmental dimensions of Argentina’s agrifood sector. The
economic dimension is vital, due to the influence of
agrifood productivity and its growth on Argentina’s
macroeconomy. The social, or inclusion, dimension highlights
the potential to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor
as well as access to affordable food for the urban poor.
Finally, the environmental dimension examines the urgent
need to increase the resilience of agricultural production
systems and support their adaptation to climate change, as
well as the agrifood sector’s potential to mitigate climate
change and other externalities. This summary report is based
on a series of more detailed sectoral background papers and
is aimed at public sector policymakers and other key
stakeholders, with the goal of identifying potential reforms
in public policies and programs and contributing to the
development of a new shared vision for the Argentine
agrifood sector.
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AGRIBUSINESS, CROPS AND FOOD SECURITY, AGRICULTURAL FINANCE