The role of agriculture and agro-processing for development in Jordan

Jose Luis Figueroa, Mai Mahmoud and Clemens Breisinger ()

No 5, MENA working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This paper aims to support the implementation of the strategic development plans of Jordan by analyzing the role of agriculture and farmers in the Jordanian economy, the role that productivity and structural change can play for fostering agricultural growth, and the role agro-processing may play in Jordan’s economic development. We argue that the development of the agro-processing sector often has stronger backward and forward linkages with the agricultural sector than other sectors and, thus, plays an important role for rural transformation.

Keywords: refugees; economic growth; agricultural sector; economic development; high-value agricultural products; employment; agricultural policies; agriculture; productivity; agricultural development; rural development; food processing; Jordan; Middle East; Asia; Western Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-ara and nep-sea
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