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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Agrifood systems (AFS) play a potentially central role in driving economic growth and transformation in low- and middle-income countries.

AFS can encompass the value added in not just primary agriculture but all agrifood-related processing, trade, and transport sectors up and downstream. Expansion of the AFS’s off-farm components is seen as central to the process of agricultural transformation and is strongly associated with economic development.

This page serves as a repository and information hub for materials related to agrifood system measurement, including agrifood system GDP and employment.

Project duration: 2017 – ongoing

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James Thurlow

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United States of America

Gates Foundation

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United States of America
Gates Foundation

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James Thurlow

James Thurlow

Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM), Foresight
and Policy Modeling

Xinshen Diao

Xinshen Diao

Senior Research Fellow, Foresight and Policy Modeling, Foresight
and Policy Modeling

Karl Pauw

Karl Pauw

Senior Research Fellow, Foresight
and Policy Modeling

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Beyond Agriculture: Measuring Agri-Food System GDP and EmploymentTransformation of the agri-food system is a cornerstone of many governments’ national development plans and is key to the One GGIAR goals of contributing to more inclusive agricultural growth, healthier diets, and more sustainable production systems. Agri-food systems remain crucial for the livelihoods and wellbeing of most of the world’s poor, and successful agricultural transformation is still strongly associated with long-term economic development. But adopting an agri-food system perspective is not trivial – it requires us to also look beyond agriculture when prioritizing innovations and policies and tracking outcomes. The agri-food system encompasses not only the primary agricultural sector, but also all upstream and downstream agriculture-related activities. Measuring transformation of the agri-food system therefore requires economywide data and innovative metrics.