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Strengthening rural livelihoods in the face of rapid urbanisation in Africa
Employment opportunities in West African food systems
Thomas Allen
Brussels, Belgium, 20 March 2017
Urbanisation and cities
Urbanisation and cities
Urbanisation and cities
3 The regional opportunities
4 Key messages
2 Food: The largest private sector
1 Changing demand
27%
16%
2%
37%
17%
Fruits & Vegetables Meat & Fish Dairy Cereals Others
Diversifying diets
31%
22%4%
26%
17%
Urban Rural
Beverages4%
Cereals27%
Unprocessed foods30%
Processed foods39%
Demand for convenience
Urban
36%
Rural
41%
3 The regional opportunities
4 Key messages
1 Changing demand2 Food: The largest private sector
Size of the food economy
c178
USD billion(2010)
36% ofregional GDP
32 USD billion
(2010)
GDP Ghana
The region’s largest private sector
Food imports = 7%…
Domestic production93%
Imports7%
178 USD billion
(2010)
The domestic food economy is 16x bigger than the agricultural export sector
11 USD billion
(2010)
Agricultural exports
4 Key messages
1 Changing demand2 Food: The largest private sector
3 The regional opportunities
Economic diversification
Agriculture60%
Non agricul-tural40%
178 USD billion
(2010)
Increasingly non
agricultural
Employment structure in the food economy
Farming60%
Food processing8%
Transport, marketing and retail
30%
Food catering2%
13 m FTE jobs 19 m
FTE jobs
Source: Tchirley et al. (2016) and author’s calculations
Nigeria in 2016
Farming Farm labor Food processing Food marketing Food catering0
22.5
45
67.5
90
112.5
15-24 25-40 Women
Source: Tchirley et al. (2016)
%Nigeria in 2016
Shar
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age
gro
up b
y se
gmen
t
No youth-specific activities
Different regional and local contexts
Concentration of urban demand
Different regional and local contexts
Sour
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Concentration of urban demand
Ouagadougou
1 Changing demand2 Food: The largest private sector
3 The regional opportunities
4 Key messages
• Emerging opportunities in the West African food economy
• Post-harvest segments of the food value chains will experience the fastest growth
• Need to better understand the local contexts and spatial dimensions of job creation
Key messages
Thank you for your attention