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Agribusiness and AgricultureAgribusiness is a key element of the economies
of many developing countries, often accounting for a significant percent of
jobs and a substantial percent of the value of goods and services produced in
a country. Countries, and their citizens, often depend upon the broad scope
and rich potential of agribusiness for economic growth and progress,
encompassing as it does all enterprises involved in the production,
processing or distribution of goods deriving from agriculture, forestry, and
fisheries. The agriculture and agribusiness sector
faces challenges associated with global trade and competitiveness,
imperatives to become more productive in terms of value per labor input, and
requirements to enable underutilized workforce to be productive in
enterprise. A nation’s agribusiness industry is usually
comprised of many organizations and enterprises—all of them responsible in
some way for value, market and supply chain elements such as production,
marketing, processing, packaging, transportation and wholesale and retail
sales. Given the potential of agribusiness industries, it is essential to
bring interests together and focus efforts toward addressing common concerns,
opportunities, and strategies. Through its projects around the world, JAA has
applied business-driven principles, market-led approaches and competitiveness
tools to agribusiness and the agriculture sector—involving market and demand
analysis, development and expansion of agribusiness markets, skills
development and dissemination, strategy, linkages to finance, and policy
advocacy. JAA has made significant contributions to emerging economies in
developing programs that would link low-level agricultural production issues
to the potential high-level context of building modern and competitive
agribusiness. JAA’s competitiveness and other agribusiness
methodologies focus on the identification and development of those key
industry and sub-industry clusters offering significant opportunities for
private investment and for achieving a sustainable competitive advantage. JAA
works with individual agribusiness companies and specific organizations to
improve firm and organizational-level strategy and performance. JAA developed
the ASSETS Model (Agribusiness Services to Support Economic Transitions) to
serve as a component of donor loan packages or potential grants from the
Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) to help speed the transition from
traditional and protected agriculture to competitive agribusiness systems.
JAA also seeks to provide the information and experience that many new or
developing industries lack, in part by organizing seminars, writing case
studies, and leading workshops on agriculture sector development strategies,
international agency lending programs, and agribusiness management. JAA’s experience in agribusiness and
agriculture development projects is closely tied to JAA’s competitiveness and
private sector development experience in that many cluster with which JAA is
engaged through the course of a competitiveness project are agriculture-based
industries. Many of the requirements of agribusiness
projects are very subsector specific, and JAA has proven its capability to
meet these needs. For example:
Please follow the link below to access
examples of projects on which JAA’s work focused on Agribusiness
and Agriculture Development.
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