Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/129466
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/2
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The animal feed to poultry value chain in the southern African region has seen rapid demand growth owing to increases in urbanization. This growth has been accompanied by the increase in co-ordinated investments by large, predominantly South African, firms across the region. We examine the developments in the value chain across countries in southern Africa, paying attention to production and trade in poultry meat and its main inputs. We also consider the regional nature of the animal feed to poultry value chain. We argue that large firms play a lead role in the development of the value chain in southern Africa given their ability to make co-ordinated investments at different levels and to realize the competitive potential from the regional agricultural production of the main feed crops.
Subjects: 
value chains
trade
poultry
regional industrialization
agro-processing
JEL: 
L66
Q13
F15
O14
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-045-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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