Policy Briefs
Sudan’s Challenges and Opportunities: A Renaissance Project for Sudan – From Poor Agriculture to Agro-Industrial Growth and Sustainable Development
No.
PB 99
Publisher
ERF
Date
November, 2022
Topic
O. Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth
In a nutshell
- Key interventions to catalyse the transformation of Sudanese agriculture from a subsistence-oriented, low-output sector to a high-performing sector well integrated into the national economy.
- Increasing budgetary allocations on agriculture and agro-industries and ending the legacy of excessive direct and indirect taxation of agriculture.
- Fostering a favorable policy environment and strengthening the role of the private sector in agricultural transformation (PPPs).
- Improving farmers’ access to financial resources, inputs, and services.
- Enhancing irrigation water infrastructure, mechanization, and the power sectors.
- Establishing agricultural commodity development councils, including producers’ councils.
- Building the capacities of the industrial sector to manufacture agricultural inputs and link the production-processing marketing chain.
- Utilizing agro-industrial growth corridors to promote the efficient use of resources.
- Resolving conflicts through the capacity building of local governance and the demarcation of migratory routes.
- Building the capacities of producers through their institutions.
- Introducing a grant institutions system to improve NARS’ effectiveness.
- Introducing digital and technical innovations to increase their productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness.
Authors
Abdelrahman Khidir Osman
Professor of Agronomy
Authors
Alzaki Alhelo
PhD, Tufts University