Limited financial resources and poor infrastructure among barriers to development of African agri-food industries
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2013-03-21
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Mercer, D.G.
Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship
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Abstract
Sub-Saharan African countries such as Malawi face a wide variety of challenges to economic development of their agri-food industries. The most serious obstacles include a lack of money to pay for fertilizer and electricity, poorly maintained transportation and food storage infrastructure, and an undereducated workforce.
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This summary is a project of the Institute for Community Engaged Scholarship (ICES) at the University of Guelph, with project partners: the Catalyst Centre, SPARK Program at the University of Guelph, and Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University. This project is part of the Pan-Canadian Research Impact Network. http://csahs.uoguelph.ca/pps/Clear_Research
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Sub-Saharan Africa, economic development, agriculture, food processing, barriers