Presentation by Philipp Heinrigs (SWAC Secretariat) given during the SWAC Seminar on 18 June 2018 at the OECD. The session was moderated by Jonas Gbian, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Water Resources and the Environment, UEMOA.

1. Panélistes/Panellists
Philipp Heinrigs
Thomas Allen
Thomas Reardon
Saweda Liverpool-Tasie
Modérateur/Moderator
Jonas Gbian, Department of Agriculture, Water Resources and
the Environment UEMOA
Agriculture, food and jobs in
West Africa

2. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Why food economy and employment?
100 %
63% of
total employment
100 %
The region’s largest private sector
85
million jobs
(2015)
260
USD billion
(2015)
39% of
regional GDP

3. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
A transforming food economy - and jobs
25% of food economy
jobs outside
agriculture.
31% of all non-
agricultural jobs in
food economy.
In many countries the
food processing
largest manufacturing
sub-sector.
85
million jobs
(2015)
Agriculture 75%
Processing 5%
Marketing 17%
Catering 3%
M

4. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Strong differences across countries

5. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
From producers to consumers - from rural to urban
74% of all food jobs in
rural areas - including
39% of all off-farm jobs.
35% of total employment
in urban areas are in the
food economy

6. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Diversifying rural economies
Emerging off-farm opportunities in rural areas

7. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
...diversifying, but not everywhere

8. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Zoom on Senegal, local context (and data)

9. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Women in food employment
68% of employed
women work in the
food economy.
1 out of 3 women in
urban areas work in
fast growing off-farm
food jobs.

10. ClubSAHEL AND
WEST AFRICA
Secretariat
Implications and what it means for development
• Food system transformations create large and new
employment opportunities - large market
opportunities in regional food demand (beyond
export crops and beyond staples)
• From producer to consumer, from rural to urban -
developing economic and employment potential
depends on linkages across activities and
environments (agribusiness environment - on farm
and off-farm)
• Not all areas and actors have same potential,
constraints - national and regional / local strategies,
(information and data)