Nicolas Depetris Chauvin is Associate Professor of Economics at the Haute école de gestion de Genève. In the past, he was Senior Advisor at the African Center for Economic Transformation, Associate Professor of International Economics at Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Research Fellow at the Oxford Center for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies at the University of Oxford, and visiting professor at Sciences Po among others. Nicolás is an international economist with extensive research and policy analysis experience in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. His area of research is on the intersection of trade and development economics. He has published several articles on agriculture supply chains, food security, resource-rich economies, debt relief, emerging market economies, and the economies of the Gulf and Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.

Session III - Agriculture and rural development II - 26/10/2017 14:15 - 16:15

Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book - written with Guido Porto (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Francis Mulangu (African Center for Economic Transformation) - investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops supply chains in six African countries, characterizing their markets structures and domestic competition policies. At the farm level, the book studies the constraints faced by small holders to increase productivity and break out of a vicious cycle in which low productivity exacerbates vulnerability to poverty. In a series of micro case studies, the project explores how cooperatives and institutions may help overcome these constraints. This book will appeal to scholars and policy makers seeking instruments to promote increased agriculture productivity, resolve food security issues, and promote agribusiness by diversifying exports and increasing trade and competitiveness.

Other speakers in this session:

Pierella Paci (World Bank)
TBC

Yu Ri Kim (University of Tokyo)
Are Seminars on Export Promotion Effective? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Ilaria Tedesco (IFAD)
Aid to Agriculture, Trade and Take off