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Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania

Content Provider	Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Author	Pauw, Karl Thurlow, James
Organization	IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
Spatial Coverage	Tanzania [TZ]
Description	Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a regionalized, dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation model. Results indicate that the structure of economic growth-not the level-is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania. Most importantly, agricultural growth trends have been driven by larger-scale farmers and by crops grown in only a few regions of the country. The slow expansion of food crops and livestock also explains the weak relationship between agricultural growth and nutrition outcomes. Additional model simulations find that accelerating agricultural growth, particularly in maize, greatly strengthens the growth-poverty relationship and enhances households- caloric availability. We conclude that low productivity, market constraints (including downstream agroprocessing), and barriers to import substitution for major food crops are among the more binding constraints to reducing poverty and improving nutrition in Tanzania.
Related Links	https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/93e1e5d4-74fb-40b4-8a93-a647ccf51115
File Format	PDF
Language	English
Publisher	International Food Policy Research Institute
Publisher Date	2010-01-01
Publisher Place	Washington, DC
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Economic Growth Poverty Nutrition Household Income Computable General Equilibrium Models Agricultural Growth Modelling Livestock Food Crops Agricultural Development Productivity Market Capacity Development Policies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science

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