Togo [In West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis]

Abiziou Tchinguilou, Abdulai Jalloh, Timothy Thomas and Gerald Nelson

Chapter 13 in West African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis, 2013, pp 353-382 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: The agricultural sector employs approximately 70 percent of the country’s workforce and plays a crucial economic and social role in Togo, contributing to food security, creating jobs, and generating income as well as providing goods and services. Agriculture accounts for 38 percent of Togo’s gross domestic product (GDP): 26.0 percent from foodcrops, 3.4 percent from cash crops, 5.1 percent from livestock products, 1.4 percent from fishery products and aquaculture, and 2.1 percent from forestry production. It produces 20 percent of the country’s export earnings (Togo 2009). The Togolese agricultural sector is dominated by the small-scale rainfed farming of millet, sorghum, maize, and rice.

Keywords: crops; climate change; agriculture; food security; economic development; agricultural development; sustainability; resource management; agricultural policies; Togo; Western Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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