Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds
More than 300 million Africans, about 30 percent of the total population, live more than one day away from the nearest port. Even when ports lie within a few hundred miles, typically sparse road networks, poor maintenance, and limited transportation infrastructure translate into high access costs. T...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2014
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| author | Guo, Zhe |
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| description | More than 300 million Africans, about 30 percent of the total population, live more than one day away from the nearest port. Even when ports lie within a few hundred miles, typically sparse road networks, poor maintenance, and limited transportation infrastructure translate into high access costs. The larger map illustrates cost-of-travel accessibility to 63 major African ports, based on port type, size, and capacity in terms of the estimated total number of hours, both off and on the road network, required to travel from any location in Africa to the nearest port. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1509252025-11-06T03:51:08Z Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds Guo, Zhe geographical information systems investment agricultural research population agriculture markets market access trade geography agricultural development More than 300 million Africans, about 30 percent of the total population, live more than one day away from the nearest port. Even when ports lie within a few hundred miles, typically sparse road networks, poor maintenance, and limited transportation infrastructure translate into high access costs. The larger map illustrates cost-of-travel accessibility to 63 major African ports, based on port type, size, and capacity in terms of the estimated total number of hours, both off and on the road network, required to travel from any location in Africa to the nearest port. 2014 2024-08-01T02:54:19Z 2024-08-01T02:54:19Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150925 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153606 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Guo, Zhe. 2014. Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds. In Atlas of African agriculture research and development: Revealing agriculture's place in Africa. Sebastian, Kate, Ed. Pp. 70-71. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298460_30 |
| spellingShingle | geographical information systems investment agricultural research population agriculture markets market access trade geography agricultural development Guo, Zhe Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds |
| title | Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds |
| title_full | Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds |
| title_fullStr | Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds |
| title_short | Accessing international markets: Ports and portsheds |
| title_sort | accessing international markets ports and portsheds |
| topic | geographical information systems investment agricultural research population agriculture markets market access trade geography agricultural development |
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