Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages
This country brief supports GCAN's goal of integrating gender, climate resilience, and nutrition considerations into policies, interventions, and research by providing policymakers, program officers, and researchers with an analysis of Senegal’s current situation and policy landscape in these areas....
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Marivoet, Wim Diatta, Ampa Dogui Thomas, Timothy S. Ferguson, Nathaniel Bryan, Elizabeth |
| author_browse | Bryan, Elizabeth Diatta, Ampa Dogui Ferguson, Nathaniel Marivoet, Wim Thomas, Timothy S. |
| author_facet | Marivoet, Wim Diatta, Ampa Dogui Thomas, Timothy S. Ferguson, Nathaniel Bryan, Elizabeth |
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| description | This country brief supports GCAN's goal of integrating gender, climate resilience, and nutrition considerations into policies, interventions, and research by providing policymakers, program officers, and researchers with an analysis of Senegal’s current situation and policy landscape in these areas. In 2019, the agrifood system of Senegal accounted for 36% of total GDP and employed 43% of the total work force. The off-farm components (i.e., processing, trade/transport, food services, and input supply) are slightly more (less) important than primary agriculture in terms of GDP (employment), which implies that labor productivity is higher for off-farm activities. The most important value chains as a percentage of total agrifood system’s GDP are groundnuts (15%), cattle/dairy (14%), and sorghum/millet and fish (both around 11%) (Diao et al. 2023). In part due to important food losses observed during storage and distribution, Senegal’s agrifood system is generally failing to provide nutritious and affordable diets to its population. In fact, total food supplies are dominated by energy-dense food items, with supplies in fruit and pulses amounting to only 55 and 15 grams per capita per day, respectively, resulting in 50% of all Senegalese being unable to afford a healthy diet in 2022. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1733692025-11-06T06:03:05Z Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages Profil pays – Sénégal: Interactions entre genre, changement climatique et nutrition Marivoet, Wim Diatta, Ampa Dogui Thomas, Timothy S. Ferguson, Nathaniel Bryan, Elizabeth agrifood systems climate change climate resilience gender nutrition policies This country brief supports GCAN's goal of integrating gender, climate resilience, and nutrition considerations into policies, interventions, and research by providing policymakers, program officers, and researchers with an analysis of Senegal’s current situation and policy landscape in these areas. In 2019, the agrifood system of Senegal accounted for 36% of total GDP and employed 43% of the total work force. The off-farm components (i.e., processing, trade/transport, food services, and input supply) are slightly more (less) important than primary agriculture in terms of GDP (employment), which implies that labor productivity is higher for off-farm activities. The most important value chains as a percentage of total agrifood system’s GDP are groundnuts (15%), cattle/dairy (14%), and sorghum/millet and fish (both around 11%) (Diao et al. 2023). In part due to important food losses observed during storage and distribution, Senegal’s agrifood system is generally failing to provide nutritious and affordable diets to its population. In fact, total food supplies are dominated by energy-dense food items, with supplies in fruit and pulses amounting to only 55 and 15 grams per capita per day, respectively, resulting in 50% of all Senegalese being unable to afford a healthy diet in 2022. 2025-02 2025-02-24T19:34:15Z 2025-02-24T19:34:15Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173369 en fr Open Access application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Marivoet, Wim; Diatta, Ampa Dogui; Thomas, Timothy S.; Ferguson, Nathaniel; and Bryan, Elizabeth. 2025. Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages. GCAN Project Note February 2025. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173369 |
| spellingShingle | agrifood systems climate change climate resilience gender nutrition policies Marivoet, Wim Diatta, Ampa Dogui Thomas, Timothy S. Ferguson, Nathaniel Bryan, Elizabeth Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages |
| title | Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages |
| title_full | Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages |
| title_fullStr | Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages |
| title_short | Country profile – Senegal: Gender, climate change, and nutrition linkages |
| title_sort | country profile senegal gender climate change and nutrition linkages |
| topic | agrifood systems climate change climate resilience gender nutrition policies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173369 |
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