Inclusiveness of off-farm employment in agri-food systems in Tanzania

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Supervisors

Van den Broeck, Goedele

Faculty

Faculté des bioingénieurs

Degree label

Master [120] : bioingénieur en sciences agronomiques, à finalité spécialisée

Abstract

This study goes through the evolution of employment within the off-farm in agri-food systems sector between 2011 and 2020 in Tanzania. The data analysed comes from the Living Standards Measurement Study developed by the World Bank. On the one hand, a descriptive analysis of employment makes it possible to evaluate the quantity of employment generated by this sector and to compare it with other sectors (farm and non-farm outside agri-food systems). The observations are also disaggregated by gender, age and location to assess the employment situation for women, young and rural people in particular. On the other hand, logistic regression makes it possible to evaluate the inclusiveness of the sector studied towards women, young and rural people. These models also allow us to identify the important factors that attract or keep people away from the off-farm sector. The results indicate that the off-farm sector has evolved significantly between 2011 and 2020 but remains a minority compared to other sectors. The sector studied is more inclusive towards women but it is not the case for youth and people from rural areas. All the results obtained in this work testify to the complexity of the evolution of employment in Sub-Saharan Africa and the need to better understand the underlying mechanisms to propose effective employment policies that generate pro-poor growth.