Agro Gain

Trade in agro-food products has grown strongly over the last two decades, reaching almost 7% in real terms annually between 2001 and 2019. But agro-food trade isn’t just increasing, it’s becoming ‘global’. A growing share of agro-food trade is taking place in global value chains (GVCs) – agricultural and food processing value chains that are spread over several countries – linking agrofood sectors and other sectors of the economy from across the world.

Project Challenges:

This challenge requires an ecological approach to agriculture that is largely missing from current management and research portfolios. Crop and livestock production systems must be managed as ecosystems, with management decisions fully informed of environmental costs and benefits. Hence as effort to solve this, we started this on lands that are collectively vast where operational costs are minimised and the efforts of our farmers are magnified in the way of mass outputs.