Agribusiness, Agriculture and Food Security
Some of our recent experience includes:
- ASEAN Supply Chain Competitiveness
- Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications
- PISDAC: Dairy Pakistan
- Expanded Agribusiness and Trade Promotion (E-ATP) in West Africa
- Farmer-to-Farmer Sub-Sector Selection and Analysis for the Agricultural Sector, Guyana, Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic
- Pakistan Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Development Program-Livelihoods Development (FDP-LD)
- Technical Assistance, General Support, and Rural Enterprise Development Environment Program, Mexico Rural Prosperity and Conservation (Mexico RPC)
- Areas for Municipal-Level Alternative Development Program (ADAM) – Colombia
- Rwanda Dairy Sector Competitiveness Project
- Agricultural Development Assistance in Rwanda (ADAR)
- Comparative Analysis of Coffee Certification Systems
Agriculture and Agribusiness is a key element of the economies of many developing countries, often accounting for a significant percentage of employment, and a substantial portion of the value of goods and services produced in a country. Despite the massive human and financial resources typically devoted to agriculture, yields, labor productivity, investment and value addition all tend to be lower than other components of the economy, and much below potential.
Agriculture and agribusiness are also basic to the livelihoods and food security of populations worldwide.
Recent trends and even shocks have refocused the world’s attention on food availability and agribusiness productivity. JAA’s professional roots are in agribusiness, and for more than two decades we have provided impactful, innovative, market-directed services to improve the competitiveness of clients’ agricultural sectors and agribusiness.
On hundreds of projects throughout the world, JAA has provided a wide range of technical, facilitation, training, policy and advisory services to a wide range of organizations and stakeholders in this arena.
JAA helps clients to identify the productive and competitive potential inherent in their agricultural sectors, and to and implement develop strategies to achieve this potential. We help governments and their development partners to target high-potential sectors, and help value chain actors to realize their competitive opportunities. We help to identify and remove policy and regulatory barriers, and improve the investment and business environment for agriculture and agribusiness. Our approach is focused on helping producers achieve the scale and productivity to engage with the market; it is enterprise-driven to encourage investment, innovation and a business outlook; and it is market focused, helping value chain stakeholders to understand market opportunities and needs, and to respond to those needs.
JAA has developed innovative approaches that have been readily adopted by the consulting industry: replicable business models, competitive positioning, comparative benchmarking, decentralized economic drivers, entry point targeting, and value chain based investment identification are a few examples. JAA’s practice and thought leadership is reflected in our recent book, Building Competitiveness in Africa’s Agriculture: A Guide to Value Chain Concepts and Applications, prepared for the World Bank as its guide for implementing value chain concepts.
JAA’s experience in agribusiness and agriculture development projects is closely tied to JAA’s competitiveness and private sector development experience. But many of the requirements of agribusiness projects are very subsector specific, and JAA has proven its capability to meet these needs. For example:
| Country | Agriculture-Related Industry Clusters/Sectors |
| Armenia | Agritourism* |
| Bolivia | Quinoa, horticulture, cut flowers, soy beans |
| Bulgaria | Processed foods, wine |
| Burkina Faso | Small ruminants, poultry |
| Cambodia | Inland fisheries |
| Central America | Coffee |
| Colombia | Rubber, cocoa, vegetable oils and meal, organic and other specialty coffee, pepper, hearts-of-palm, fish, bamboo, cut flowers |
| Croatia | Wood products, agritourism, culinary tourism* |
| Dominican Republic | Fruits and vegetables, dairy, aquaculture, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, cigars, tree crops, sugar, sorghum |
| Ecuador | Organic horticulture, shrimp |
| Egypt | Horticulture |
| Ghana | Domestic staples (including cassava, plantains, yams), cocoa |
| Guyana | Fruits and vegetables, dairy, aquaculture |
| Haiti | Poultry, honey, rabbits |
| India | Maize, corn, sugar |
| Kazakhstan | Processed foods, cotton |
| Laos | Coffee, cotton |
| Lebanon | Olives |
| Mali | Mango, potato, onion/shallot, tomato, small ruminants, poultry |
| Mexico | Cacao |
| Mongolia | Meat, cashmere |
| Mozambique | Cashews |
| Nicaragua | Fruits and vegetables, dairy, aquaculture, agritourism |
| Nigeria | Ginger, sesame, hides & skins, gum arabic, shrimp, livestock, cashew nuts, poultry, meat |
| Pakistan | Dairy, strawberries, mango, grapes, deciduous, honey, livestock |
| Panama | Dairy, livestock, tree crops |
| Romania | Pork, agritourism |
| Rwanda | Horticulture, pyrethrum, anthurium, roses, coffee, chili peppers, honey, dairy |
| Senegal | Cashew nuts, fonio, neem, bissap (hibiscus), millet, sorghum, mango, banana, cotton, poultry, rice, maize, seeds |
| Sri Lanka | Coir, rubber, rubber services, spices, tea, cocoa, cashews, agritourism |
| Tanzania | Food processing, horticulture |
| Thailand | High value added agriculture, seafood, silk, marine fisheries |
| Uganda | Coffee, cotton, cut flowers, dairy, fisheries, fish processing, maize, tea, rice, millet/sorghum |
| Venezuela | Palm oil, sesame seeds and oil, agribusiness consumer products, mayonnaise |
| Vietnam | Fruit |
| Zambia | Oilseeds, dairy, tree crops, coffee, maize |
*Agritourism is visiting a farm or ranch for an unspecified period of time; culinary tourism refers to experiencing the food of the country, including slow food