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Value Chains in Sub-Saharan AfricaEconomic Growth Corridors Through a Value-Chain Lens: The Case of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor in Tanzania

Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Growth Corridors Through a Value-Chain Lens: The... [Tanzania’s Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT) is a role-model economic growth corridor (EGC). It aims at easing the incorporation of smallholder farmers into global and regional value chains through partnerships with larger agricultural companies. EGCs in general and SAGCOT in particular are not only about upgrading infrastructure. They in fact address numerous challenges to local producers, including the lack of finance and knowledge relating to markets and production as well as their low bargaining power in global value chains (GVCs). This chapter starts with a summary of the conceptual literature on GVCs, of global production networks as well as of Kaplinsky’s understanding of power dynamics within GVCs. The authors then assess SAGCOT, showing how the initiative seeks to address existing inequalities and unfavourable power dynamics in GVC development. Potential challenges that SAGCOT faces are discussed, and corresponding policy recommendations given.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Value Chains in Sub-Saharan AfricaEconomic Growth Corridors Through a Value-Chain Lens: The Case of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor in Tanzania

Part of the Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development Book Series
Editors: Scholvin, Sören; Black, Anthony; Revilla Diez, Javier; Turok, Ivan
Parshotam, Asmita; Revilla Diez, Javier
Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa — May 10, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
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978-3-030-06205-7
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61 –77
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10.1007/978-3-030-06206-4_5
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[Tanzania’s Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT) is a role-model economic growth corridor (EGC). It aims at easing the incorporation of smallholder farmers into global and regional value chains through partnerships with larger agricultural companies. EGCs in general and SAGCOT in particular are not only about upgrading infrastructure. They in fact address numerous challenges to local producers, including the lack of finance and knowledge relating to markets and production as well as their low bargaining power in global value chains (GVCs). This chapter starts with a summary of the conceptual literature on GVCs, of global production networks as well as of Kaplinsky’s understanding of power dynamics within GVCs. The authors then assess SAGCOT, showing how the initiative seeks to address existing inequalities and unfavourable power dynamics in GVC development. Potential challenges that SAGCOT faces are discussed, and corresponding policy recommendations given.]

Published: May 10, 2019

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