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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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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

Contact

James Thurlow

Donors and funders

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Governance (WEAGov) technical workshop: India pilot study

2024Ragasa, Catherine; Kyle, Jordan; Yasmin, Sabina; Pande, Harshita; Basu, Sampurna; Sharma, Aanshi
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Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Governance (WEAGov) technical workshop: India pilot study

Gender Equality research initiative Gender Equality (HER+) is a One CGIAR Research Initiative seeking to address the following four dimensions of gender inequality in agrifood systems: o Women’s lack of agency or limited ability to define and act on goals, make decisions that matter to them, and participate in the economy and in public life; o Women’s lack of access to and control over resources; o Social norms that discriminate based on gender; and o Policies and governance that fail to include and benefit women. HER+ uses impactful gender research to address the four dimensions of gender inequality by applying gender-transformative approaches to address harmful norms. It does this by bundling innovations for women’s empowerment, leveraging social protection to increase women’s access to and control over resources, and promoting inclusive governance and policies for increased resilience. HER+ will generate learning and evidence on levers and entry points to disrupt the foundations of inequality in agrifood systems (AFS).

Year published

2024

Authors

Ragasa, Catherine; Kyle, Jordan; Yasmin, Sabina; Pande, Harshita; Basu, Sampurna; Sharma, Aanshi

Citation

Ragasa, Catherine; Kyle, Jordan; Yasmin, Sabina; Pande, Harshita; Basu, Sampurna; and Sharma, Aanshi. 2024. Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Governance (WEAGov) technical workshop: India pilot study. Stakeholder Workshop Report July 2024. Montpellier, France: CGIAR System Organization. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149238

Country/Region

India

Keywords

Asia; Southern Asia; Capacity Development; Gender Equality; Innovation; Women’s Empowerment; Social Protection

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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Source record

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Gender Equality

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Report

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Transformation of Sudan’s agrifood system structure and drivers

2023Diao, Xinshen; Pauw, Karl; Raouf, Mariam; Siddig, Khalid; Thurlow, James; Ellis, Mia
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Transformation of Sudan’s agrifood system structure and drivers

Since the secession of South Sudan in 2011, the Sudanese economy has faced an unprecedented economic downturn caused by the loss of around 75 percent of oil revenue, civil strife, and political instability (Alhelo, Siddig, and Kirui 2023), and more recently, by the impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war (Abay et al. 2023). The political conflict between the civilians and military entities after the fall of the Inghaz regime and the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are driving further deterioration of the economy (Abushama et al. 2023).

Year published

2023

Authors

Diao, Xinshen; Pauw, Karl; Raouf, Mariam; Siddig, Khalid; Thurlow, James; Ellis, Mia

Citation

Diao, Xinshen; Pauw, Karl; Raouf, Mariam; Siddig, Khalid; Thurlow, James; and Ellis, Mia. 2023. Transformation of Sudan’s agrifood system structure and drivers. Agrifood System Diagnostics Country Series 17. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136795

Country/Region

Sudan

Keywords

Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Northern Africa; Agrifood Systems; Value Chains; Markets; Agriculture; Labour Productivity; Off-farm Employment; Poverty; Diet Quality; Jobs; Development; Gross National Product; Cereals; Cotton; Fruits; Vegetables

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136795 Source record

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Foresight

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Mozambique’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation

2023Benfica, Rui; Diao, Xinshen; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; Ellis, Mia
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Mozambique’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation

Mozambique was one of the fastest-growing countries in sub-Saharan Africa between 2009 and 2014, with annual growth averaging about 7 percent (INE 2020; World Bank 2023a). However, adverse economic circumstances resulted in a significant weakening of economic growth, which averaged only 4.6 percent over the period 2014 to 2019 (INE 2020; World Bank 2023a). Restrictive COVID-19 policymeasures introduced in 2020 further stifled the economy, resulting in negative growth in 2020 and low growth in 2021. Like many other countries, Mozambique was adversely affected by global commodity market disruptions resulting from the onset of Russia-Ukraine war in 2022 and the global recession in 2023 (Arndt et al. 2023; Diao and Thurlow 2023). Mozambique’s growth is expected to recover in the coming years, with projections of 5.0 percent growth in 2023 and 8.0 percent in 2024 (World Bank 2023b), suggesting the economy is inching back toward its pre-pandemic growth trajectory.

Year published

2023

Authors

Benfica, Rui; Diao, Xinshen; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; Ellis, Mia

Citation

Benfica, Rui; Diao, Xinshen; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; and Ellis, Mia. 2023. Mozambique’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation. Agrifood System Diagnostics Country Series 10. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136789

Country/Region

Mozambique

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; Agrifood Systems; Value Chains; Markets; Agriculture; Labour Productivity; Off-farm Employment; Poverty; Diet Quality; Jobs; Development; Gross National Product; Maize; Fish; Horticulture; Livestock

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136789 Source record

Project

Foresight

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Brief

Donors

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Team members

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.