Improving Smallholders’ Jobs Through Agribusiness Linkages: Findings of the Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP)

Michael Baxter, Christopher Delgado, Jose Manuel Romero and Ian D. Walker

No 33123060, Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides from The World Bank

Abstract: The Mozambique Agricultural Aggregator Pilot (MAAP) research program investigated how jobs and earnings changed when seven different commercial aggregators worked with contracted growers in farm-based value chains in Mozambique in the period 2017-2020. The study covered a range of crops and animal products including: cotton, sugar, maize, chickens, sesame and goats. MAAP aims to improve our understanding of the viability of agricultural aggregation schemes involving agribusinesses working with smallholder farm suppliers in Mozambique and similar African countries. It investigates the incremental costs and returns to firms and growers of expanding the number of growers in existing aggregation schemes.

Keywords: Labor Markets; Food Security; Common Carriers Industry; Food & Beverage Industry; Plastics & Rubber Industry; Agribusiness; Textiles; Apparel & Leather Industry; Pulp & Paper Industry; Business Cycles and Stabilization Policies; Governance Diagnostic Capacity Building; Macroeconomic Management; Economic Forecasting; Climate Change and Agriculture; Crops and Crop Management Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55
Date: 2020-12-24
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