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Turkey: Water along the food chain

Year of publication 2017

Pages 196 p.

Author Santos, Nuno

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-109360-3

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Turkey’s agri-food sector will be of tremendous importance in the decades to come. In 2013, in terms of its total gross agricultural production value (at 2004-06 constant prices), Turkey was ranked eighth in the world, just behind Argentina and closely followed by France and Mexico. The first objective of this report is to compile empirical evidence from official statistics on water usage in the Turkish agricultural sector and to combine this with available qualitative information and first-hand company-level and stakeholder information about water usage in typical processing steps along the Turkish food value chain. This analysis was conducted while taking the perspectives of both the public and private sectors into account, and with a view toward the potential need for investment in order to maintain and increase the competitiveness of the Turkish agri-food industry in the long-term. The red meat chain in Turkey was therefore examined in detail as an example of a major sector with a dynamically growing domestic demand. The second objective of this report is to analyse existing economic incentives in Turkey that have an effect on the use of water along the food chain, and to investigate if and to what extent these incentives currently contribute to an overall “water-smart” policy framework around agricultural production and processing. Therefore, the overall purpose of the report is to determine whether potential changes to existing policies in Turkey might enable the countr y’s water resources to be used more efficiently and sustainably in future.

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