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Global Agro-food Value Chains: new evidence from SSA

Year of publication 2016

Pages 22 p.

Author Del Prete, D.;Magrini, E.;Montalbano, P.;Nenci, S.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In the past twenty years, production has been increasingly unbundled and shared across many countries at different levels of development. The common perception is that Africa, contrary to Latin America, Asia, and China in particular, has not been able so far to intercept the main changes in trade patterns nor enter massively into global production networks. By using the EORA Input-Output Tables and applying for the first time to this data the gross exports decomposition method provided by Wang e t al. (2013), we analyze the Global Value Chain participation and position of Sub-Saharan African countries with a focus on global agro-food chains. Results show that, despite the low trade shares at the global level, SSA agricultural sector is deeply involved in GVC participation and the relevance of its international linkages is increasing over time, although still limited to upstream (likely unprocessed) production stages of the chain. Furthermore, we show that the demand pull for SSA agricul tural production is not regional but mainly driven by the EU and emerging countries.

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