Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania
Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a regionalized, dynamic computable general equilibrium and micro...
| Autores principales: | , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Artículo preliminar |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
International Food Policy Research Institute
2010
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154792 |
| _version_ | 1855530869915123712 |
|---|---|
| author | Pauw, Karl Thurlow, James |
| author_browse | Pauw, Karl Thurlow, James |
| author_facet | Pauw, Karl Thurlow, James |
| author_sort | Pauw, Karl |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a regionalized, dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation model. Results indicate that the structure of economic growth-not the level-is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania. Most importantly, agricultural growth trends have been driven by larger-scale farmers and by crops grown in only a few regions of the country. The slow expansion of food crops and livestock also explains the weak relationship between agricultural growth and nutrition outcomes. Additional model simulations find that accelerating agricultural growth, particularly in maize, greatly strengthens the growth-poverty relationship and enhances households- caloric availability. We conclude that low productivity, market constraints (including downstream agroprocessing), and barriers to import substitution for major food crops are among the more binding constraints to reducing poverty and improving nutrition in Tanzania. |
| format | Artículo preliminar |
| id | CGSpace154792 |
| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2010 |
| publishDateRange | 2010 |
| publishDateSort | 2010 |
| publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| publisherStr | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | CGSpace1547922025-11-06T06:47:37Z Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania Pauw, Karl Thurlow, James economic growth poverty nutrition household income computable general equilibrium models agricultural growth modelling livestock food crops agricultural development productivity market capacity development policies Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a regionalized, dynamic computable general equilibrium and microsimulation model. Results indicate that the structure of economic growth-not the level-is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania. Most importantly, agricultural growth trends have been driven by larger-scale farmers and by crops grown in only a few regions of the country. The slow expansion of food crops and livestock also explains the weak relationship between agricultural growth and nutrition outcomes. Additional model simulations find that accelerating agricultural growth, particularly in maize, greatly strengthens the growth-poverty relationship and enhances households- caloric availability. We conclude that low productivity, market constraints (including downstream agroprocessing), and barriers to import substitution for major food crops are among the more binding constraints to reducing poverty and improving nutrition in Tanzania. 2010 2024-10-01T14:03:54Z 2024-10-01T14:03:54Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154792 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James. 2010. Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania. IFPRI Discussion Paper 947. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154792 |
| spellingShingle | economic growth poverty nutrition household income computable general equilibrium models agricultural growth modelling livestock food crops agricultural development productivity market capacity development policies Pauw, Karl Thurlow, James Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania |
| title | Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania |
| title_full | Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania |
| title_short | Agricultural growth, poverty, and nutrition in Tanzania |
| title_sort | agricultural growth poverty and nutrition in tanzania |
| topic | economic growth poverty nutrition household income computable general equilibrium models agricultural growth modelling livestock food crops agricultural development productivity market capacity development policies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154792 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT pauwkarl agriculturalgrowthpovertyandnutritionintanzania AT thurlowjames agriculturalgrowthpovertyandnutritionintanzania |