Agribusiness Indicators : Kenya

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ACCESS TO CREDIT;    AGRIBUSINESS;    AGRIBUSINESS INDUSTRY;    AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR;    AGRICULTURAL AREAS;   

RP-ID  :  82517

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The importance of agriculture in theeconomies of sub-Saharan African countries cannot beoveremphasized. With agriculture accounting for about 65percent of the region's employment and 75 percent ofits domestic trade, significant progress in reducing hungerand poverty across the region depends on the development andtransformation of the agricultural sector. Transformingagriculture from largely a subsistence enterprise to aprofitable commercial venture is the prerequisite anddriving force for accelerated development and sustainableeconomic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. The rationale behindthe development of agribusiness indicators (ABIs) is toconstruct indicators for specific factors to supportsuccessful, effective private sector involvement inagriculture. The indicators can be used to benchmark andmonitor performance in the agricultural sector over time andacross countries. The resulting information can provokeknowledge flows and meaningful dialogue among policy makers,government officials, donors, private sector actors, as wellas other stakeholders in the agricultural sector. This studyis predicated on the fact that agriculture is the backboneof the economies of most countries in sub-Saharan Africa,including Kenya. The ultimate aim is to stimulate debate anddialogue among policy makers in specific African countriesto engender change and reform in areas where investment isneeded to leverage agribusiness and economic development.This study relied heavily on an extensive secondary datacollection and literature review, supplemented by informalsurveys to solicit information from a broad spectrum ofstakeholders and actors in Kenya's agricultural sector.The review and interviews focused on the factors that theagribusiness indicators team determined to be the mostcritical for agribusiness development across sub-SaharanAfrica, based on extensive scoping missions in three pilotcountries (Ghana, Ethiopia, and Mozambique). This report isorganized into following chapters: chapter one givesintroduction; chapter two presents ABI methodology; chapterthree presents findings on the success factors andindicators; and chapter four gives concluding remarks.