Presentation made by Philipp Heinrigs (SWAC/OECD) during the SWAC webinar on agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa which took place on 28 June 2018. http://www.oecd.org/swac/events/webinar-food-employment-west-africa-june-2018.htm
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In the last two decades, electricity consumption in agriculture has grown more than the food and population growth.
India's water use efficiency is one of the lowest among the leading agriculture countries.
It is high time for the corrective policy level measures and strict action should be taken. Otherwise soon agriculture will be a cursed child by all the line departments especially electricity and ground water departments.
Policy level measures may be taken in terms of
1. Improvement in the pumping system
2. Usage of renewable energy in agriculture
3. Develop of cost effective precision irrigation and remote irrigation so that small farmers can irrigate at a lesser cost
4. Include a component of efficient pumping system in the Watershed programs.
5. Provide incentives to the farmers for usage of efficient measures
6. Account the electricity usage in agriculture
7. Encourage use of solar power in pumping the water instead of diesel.
8. Integrate the efforts of different line departments
9. Restrict the manufacturing of unbranded non ISI pumping systems.
10. Sensitize and strengthen of academic and extension Institutions.
Thurlow, J. 2020. Measuring Agricultural Transformation. Presentation to United States Agency for International Development. Washington DC: IFPRI (January 20)
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Agriculture in India is one of the largest contributors to the GDP. Agriculture consumes about 25% of the total sold electricity in India. In the last few years, electricity-crop index (MWh/ton) is increasing drastically leading to inefficient usage of electricity. India also uses about 5%-8% of diesel sold in the country for water pumping. In the process, crucial foreign revenue is lost coupled and carbon is emitted to the environment.
In the last two decades, electricity consumption in agriculture has grown more than the food and population growth.
India's water use efficiency is one of the lowest among the leading agriculture countries.
It is high time for the corrective policy level measures and strict action should be taken. Otherwise soon agriculture will be a cursed child by all the line departments especially electricity and ground water departments.
Policy level measures may be taken in terms of
1. Improvement in the pumping system
2. Usage of renewable energy in agriculture
3. Develop of cost effective precision irrigation and remote irrigation so that small farmers can irrigate at a lesser cost
4. Include a component of efficient pumping system in the Watershed programs.
5. Provide incentives to the farmers for usage of efficient measures
6. Account the electricity usage in agriculture
7. Encourage use of solar power in pumping the water instead of diesel.
8. Integrate the efforts of different line departments
9. Restrict the manufacturing of unbranded non ISI pumping systems.
10. Sensitize and strengthen of academic and extension Institutions.
Thurlow, J. 2020. Measuring Agricultural Transformation. Presentation to United States Agency for International Development. Washington DC: IFPRI (January 20)
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Presented by Yemi Akinbamijo, Executive Director, FARA, at the ILRI@40 Side event at the All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Nairobi, Kenya, 28 October 2014
Channing Arndt
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The Knowledge Lab on Climate Resilient Food Systems: An analytical support facility to achieve the SDGs
Co-Organized by IFPRI and AGRA
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Agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa
Philipp Heinrigs, Senior Economist
OECD / Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat
28 June 2018
ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
2. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Why food economy and employment?
100 %
63% of
total employment
100 %
The region’s largest private sector
85
million jobs
(2015)
260
USD billion
(2015)
39% of
regional GDP
3. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Drivers of food economy transformations
Population growth,
urbanisation and income
growth have driven
changes in the size and
structure of the food
economy (and will
continue to do so).
Changing consumer
habits: demand for
diversity and convenience
4. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
A transforming food economy - and jobs
25% of food economy
jobs outside
agriculture.
31% of all non-
agricultural jobs in
food economy.
In many countries the
food processing
largest manufacturing
sub-sector.
85
million jobs
(2015)
Agriculture 75%
Processing 5%
Marketing 17%
Catering 3%
M
6. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
From producers to consumers - from rural to urban
74% of all food jobs in
rural areas - including
39% of all off-farm jobs.
35% of total employment
in urban areas are in the
food economy
10. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Women in food employment
68% of employed
women work in the
food economy.
1 out of 3 women in
urban areas work in
fast growing off-farm
food jobs.
11. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Implications and what it means for development
• Food system transformations create large and new
employment opportunities - large market
opportunities in regional food demand (beyond
export crops and beyond staples)
• From producer to consumer, from rural to urban -
developing economic and employment potential
depends on linkages across activities and
environments
• Not all areas and actors have same potential,
constraints - national and regional / local strategies,
(information and data)