Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities

Duncan Boughton, Ben Belton, Isabel B. Lambrecht, Ian Masias and Bart Minten

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Abstract: Myanmar has endured multiple crises in recent years — including COVID-19, global price instability, the 2021 coup, and widespread conflict — that have disrupted and even reversed a decade of economic development. Household welfare has declined severely, with more than 3 million people displaced and many more affected by high food price inflation and worsening diets. Yet Myanmar’s agrifood production and exports have proved surprisingly resilient. Myanmar’s Agrifood System: Historical Development, Recent Shocks, Future Opportunities provides critical analyses and insights into the agrifood system’s evolution, current state, and future potential. This work fills an important knowledge gap for one of Southeast Asia’s major agricultural economies — one largely closed to empirical research for many years. It is the culmination of a decade of rigorous empirical research on Myanmar’s agrifood system, including through the recent crises. Written by IFPRI researchers and colleagues from Michigan State University, the book’s insights can serve as a to guide immediate humanitarian assistance and inform future growth strategies, once a sustainable resolution to the current crisis is found that ensures lasting peace and good governance.

Keywords: agrifood systems; development; economic shock; governance; Myanmar; Asia; South-eastern Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-10-10
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction [in Myanmar’s agrifood system: Historical development, recent shocks, future opportunities] , pp p. 1-18

Duncan Boughton, Ben Belton, Isabel B. Lambrecht and Bart Minten

Ch 2 The agrifood system: Structure and contribution to development goals , pp p. 19-42

Xinshen Diao, Ian Masias, Karl Pauw, James Thurlow and Duncan Boughton

Ch 3 A historical and regional perspective on Myanmar’s agrifood system , pp p. 43-78

Duncan Boughton, Steve Haggblade and Bart Minten

Ch 4 Dietary quality and nutrition: Past progress, current and future challenges , pp nan

Kristi Mahrt, Derek D. Headey, Olivier Ecker, Andrew R. Comstock and Salauddin Tauseef

Ch 5 Vulnerability and welfare during multiple crises , pp p. 121-148

Joanna van Asselt, Isabel B. Lambrecht and Zin Wai Aung

Ch 6 Agricultural land: Inequality and insecurity , pp 149-170

Isabel B. Lambrecht, Ben Belton, Peixun Fang, Bart Minten and Phyo Thandar Naing

Ch 7 Agricultural mechanization: Drivers and characteristics , pp p. 171-200

Ben Belton, Myat Thida Win, Xiaobo Zhang, Mateusz J. Filipski, Hiroyuki Takeshima and Ian Masias

Ch 8 Crop production: An engine in need of an upgrade , pp p. 201-220

Nilar Aung, Cho Cho San, Duncan Boughton, Bart Minten, Phyo Thandar Naing, Ben Belton and Isabel B. Lambrecht

Ch 9 Livestock, capture fisheries, and aquaculture: Status and recent trends , pp p. 221-244

Ben Belton and Peixun Fang

Ch 10 Farm commercialization: A transformation on hold or in reverse? , pp p. 245-277

Bart Minten, Peixun Fang, Phyo Thandar Naing, Zin Wai Aung and Hnin Ei Win

Ch 11 The rice sector , pp p. 279-307

Paul A. Dorosh, Nilar Aung and Bart Minten

Ch 12 Agricultural value chains: Examples of quiet transformation , pp p. 309-339

Ben Belton, Cho Ame, Peixun Fang, Myat Thida Win and David Mather

Ch 13 Food processing: A stalled transformation , pp p. 341-372

Bart Minten, Olivier Ecker, Andrew R. Comstock, Kristi Mahrt, Peixun Fang, Joseph Goeb and Phoo Pye Zone

Ch 14 Agrifood trade , pp p. 373-408

Xinshen Diao, Ian Masias and Wuit Yi Lwin

Ch 15 Migration trends and implications , pp p. 409-437

Mateusz J. Filipski, Ben Belton, Joanna van Asselt, Aung Hein, A Myint Zu, Kyan Htoo, Myat Thida Win, Eaindra Theint Theint Thu, Khun Moe Htun and Hnin Ei

Ch 16 Income diversification and the rural nonfarm economy , pp p. 439-466

Susan Paudel, Mateusz J. Filipski and Bart Minten

Ch 17 Women and youth in agriculture , pp p. 467-490

Isabel B. Lambrecht, Kristi Mahrt, Ame Cho and Hnin Ei Win

Ch 18 Regional variations in rural livelihoods: Challenges and opportunities , pp p. 491-512

Ben Belton, Mateusz J. Filipski, Isabel B. Lambrecht and Peixun Fang

Ch 19 Conclusion: From recovery to renewal of the agrifood system , pp p. 513-532

Duncan Boughton and Bart Minten

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