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AGRO-INDUSTRIES FOR DEVELOPMENT
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The demand for food and agricultural products is changing in unprecedented
ways. Increases in per capita incomes, higher urbanization and the growing
numbers of women in the workforce engender greater demand for high-value
commodities, processed products and ready-prepared foods. A clear trend
exists towards diets that include more animal products such as fish, meat and
dairy products, which in turn increases the demand for feed grains (FAO,
2007). There is also a growing use of agricultural products, particularly grains
and oil crops, as bioenergy production feedstock. International trade and communications
are accelerating changes in demand, leading to convergence of
dietary patterns as well as growing interest in ethnic foods from specific geographical
locations.
The nature and extent of the changing structure of agrifood demand offer
unprecedented opportunities for diversification and value addition in agriculture,
particularly in developing countries. As a reflection of changing consumer
demand, the 1990s witnessed a diversification of production in
developing countries into non-traditional fruits and vegetables. The share of
developing countries in world trade of non-traditional fruits and vegetables has
increased rapidly in the recent past (FAO, 2007). According to Rabobank,
global processed foods sales per year are estimated at well over US$3 trillion,
or approximately three-quarters of the total food sales internationally
(Rabobank, 2008). While most of these sales are in high-income countries, the
percentages of global manufacturing value addition for the main agro-industry
manufacturing product categories generated by developing countries have
nearly doubled in the last 25 years (FAO, 2007).
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Management
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2009
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