2023 ATOR: The call for nutrition-smart food systems
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Ulimwengu, John M.; Magne Domgho, Léa Vicky; and Collins, Julia. 2023. 2023 ATOR: The call for nutrition-smart food systems. In African Food Systems Transformation and the Post-Malabo Agenda, eds. John M. Ulimwengu, Ebenezer M. Kwofie, and Julia Collins. Chapter 5, Pp. 84-105. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140179
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A shift from agriculture to manufacturing was one of the hallmarks of job creation, poverty reduction, and rapid growth in low-income countries during the latter half of the 20th century. This experience in earlier decades of structural transformation was characterized by labor-absorbing, productivity-increasing manufacturing. Recent structural change in African countries has been markedly different—productivity gains are realized through reallocation of economic activity away from agriculture without the accompanying within-sector productivity growth in nonagriculture, and manufacturing in particular (Diao, McMillan, and Rodrik 2019; Diao et al., 2021; McMillan and Zeufack 2022). This chapter examines the extent to which agrifood processing follows these trends.