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Myanmar’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation

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Title Myanmar’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation
 
Creator Diao, Xinshen
Masias, Ian
Pauw, Karl
Thurlow, James
Boughton, Duncan
Ellis, Mia
 
Subject agrifood systems
value chains
markets
agriculture
labour productivity
off-farm employment
poverty
diet quality
jobs
development
gross national product
cereals
livestock
hunger
conflict
 
Description Myanmar initiated economic and political reforms in 2011, ushering in a period of rapid economic transformation. The country experienced strong annual average economic growth of close to 7 percent between 2011 and 2019. The rural economy and the agriculture sector were also transforming, characterized by accelerated rural out-migration from the sector, which was facilitated by favorable policy changes, increased trade, and improved road infrastructure (Filipski et. al. 2021). Rural wages rose (Belton et. al. 2021), and labor shortages, along with increased access to financing, led to a massive expansion of mechanization services (Win et al. 2018) and other rural nonfarm enterprises. However, the economic transformation was disrupted by the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the political crisis caused by the military coup d’état in 2021. During this recent period, Myanmar’s agrifood system was impacted by numerous shocks, including disruptions to the banking and local transportation systems, changes to international trade policies, rapidly depreciating currency, foreign exchange controls, increasing global commodity prices, and massive declines in income and access to credit, among others. In this brief, we focus on Myanmar’s agrifood system between 2011 and 2019 and evaluate the potential contributions of different value chains to driving agricultural transformation and welfare gains in the future.
 
Date 2023-07-10
2023-08-08T09:32:55Z
2023-08-08T09:32:55Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Diao, Xinshen; Masias, Ian; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James; Ellis, Mia; and Boughton, Duncan. 2023. Myanmar’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation. Agrifood System Diagnostics Country Series 11. https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136793
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131429
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136793
 
Language en
 
Relation Agrifood System Diagnostics Country Series
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 22 pages
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute