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Enabling environments for agribusiness and agro-industries development

Regional and country perspectives

Year of publication 2013

Author Gabor Konig; Carlos A. da Silva; Nomathemba Mhlanga

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category Technical book

ISBN 9789251074107

Series number 2304-5191

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The existence of a conducive business climate, or enabling environment, is considered essential to engender economic growth and development. However, what “an enabling environment” should encompass in practical terms remains elusive to many scholars and policy makers, particularly when discussed at the sub-sector level. This publication by FAO’s Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division (AGS) examines issues associated with enabling environments with a focus on agribusiness and agro -industrial sectors, which have not had their peculiar characteristics sufficiently examined in traditional appraisals of business climates. Based on a series of workshops and consultations organized by AGS in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, the report reviews existing frameworks for general enabling environment assessments and discusses their relevance to agribusiness and agro-industries. It also discusses the challenges of enabling environment reforms and identifies a numbe r of essential, important and useful enablers that are particularly relevant to agrifood business climate appraisals and upgrading.

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