{"id":1639,"date":"2015-03-11T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:11:40","slug":"in-new-report-un-agency-promotes-agrocorridors-as-economic-driver-for-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2015\/03\/in-new-report-un-agency-promotes-agrocorridors-as-economic-driver-for-developing-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"In new report, UN agency promotes &#8216;agrocorridors&#8217; as economic driver for developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-soundcloud\"><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/unfao\/new-report-touts-agrocorridors-as-economic-driver&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=false&amp;color=ff7700\" title=\"soundcloud\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Targeted development programmes prioritising smallholder farmers can boost food security in lower-income countries and draw critical private capital to agricultural areas in need, according to a new report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (<a title=\"FAO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAO<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The programmes \u2013 also described as economic &#8216;agrocorridors&#8217; by the UN agency \u2013 are designed to foster agriculture in developing countries, particularly in territories connected by lines of transportation such as highways, railroads, ports or canals, by integrating investments, policy frameworks and local institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key idea is not just to make transportation or irrigation infrastructure improvements but to provide a platform that enables and empowers authorities at local, national and regional levels to make more informed decisions about what they want to achieve,\u201d said FAO agribusiness economist Eva G\u00e1lvez Nogales and author of the <em>Making economic corridors work for the agricultural sector<\/em> report.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/279554\/icode\/\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> issued earlier today, the FAO explained that such corridors have traditionally been used to bolster physical connectivity to improve the functioning of markets, such as the linking of mines to ports.<\/p>\n<p>However, the agency added, the corridors can also be harnessed to smarter planning initiatives, aimed at enhancing agricultural opportunities, achieving explicit targets such as creating rural jobs, environmental goals and catalysing improved governance along value chains.<\/p>\n<p>The 200-page report itself analyses in detail six specific case studies, including three well-advanced corridor programmes in Central Asia, the Greater Mekong Subregion in Southeast Asia and Peru and three new projects still largely in the early implementation phase in Indonesia, Mozambique and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to boosting local economies and accessing untapped growth potential, so-called &#8216;agrocorridors&#8217; can also be a boon for efforts aimed at protecting the environment, said Eugenia Serova, director of FAO&#8217;s Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorridors can in fact allow for better management of environment risks and practices such as unsuitable monocropping,\u201d Ms. Serova continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key is for inclusive coordination of stakeholder interests both in the planning and execution phase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=50295\" target=\"_blank\">via UN News Center<\/a><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zero-hunger","category-economic-growth","category-infrastructure","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}