Measuring employment and job quality in agrifood systems: A comprehensive approach

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationPurdue Universityen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeRethinking Food Marketsen_US
cg.creator.identifierWilliam Martin: 0000-0002-2824-1303en_US
cg.creator.identifierRob Vos: 0000-0002-4496-080Xen_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Uniten_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobsen_US
dc.contributor.authorCorong, Erwinen_US
dc.contributor.authorGautam, Madhuren_US
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Willen_US
dc.contributor.authorVos, Roben_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-14T18:37:30Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-14T18:37:30Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/169012en_US
dc.titleMeasuring employment and job quality in agrifood systems: A comprehensive approachen_US
dcterms.abstractAs the agricultural transformation associated with economic development proceeds, the economic fulcrum of the agrifood system moves from on-farm, or primary, production activities to activities that are increasingly non-farm sector based, such as agro-processing, food services, wholesale and retail trade, etc. Therefore, the traditional measures of farm employment and value-addition (or GDP) come to represent a smaller and smaller share of the total contribution of the agrifood system. Better quantification is important not only to appreciate the transformation within the agrifood system with economic development, but also to inform better policies and strategies to create more and better-quality jobs and accelerate structural transformation in developing economies. There are two broad approaches to measuring the size of the agrifood sector—tracking activity in agrifood sectors; and exploiting the full structure of the economy to assess the direct and indirect employment required to meet final demand for agrifood products. Both approaches are used in an analysis based on the global GTAP database and their results compared. The findings suggest that the final demand approach provides a more comprehensive assessment of the economic activities needed to meet final demand, with agrifood sector accounting for a much larger share of GDP, and the broader agrifood sector generating more and better-quality skilled jobs for both male and female workers. Another key aspect of the relationship is the resources needed to produce non-food products such as biofuels, clothing and leather products that rely on agricultural inputs. Including the resources needed to produce non-food agrifood outputs substantially increases the importance of the agrifood sector in overall activity and employment.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCorong, Erwin; Gautam, Madhur; Martin, Will; and Vos, Rob. 2024. Measuring employment and job quality in agrifood systems: A comprehensive approach. CGIAR Initiative on Rethinking Food Markets. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/169012en_US
dcterms.extent32 p.en_US
dcterms.issued2024-12-31en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.subjectmeasurementen_US
dcterms.subjectemploymenten_US
dcterms.subjectagrifood systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectagrifood sectoren_US
dcterms.subjecttradeen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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