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Gabon Agriculture
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Jean-Luc Wilain, Chief Operating Officer – Business Development, IBL Group from The Report: Gabon 2014
Articles & Analysis | Expanding domestic production to aid economic diversification efforts and reduce food imports from The Report: Gabon 2014
With a tropical climate and arable land to spare, Gabon has significant potential to expand agriculture, yet the sector remains largely underdeveloped. At present production is dominated by cassava and plantain, the output of which reached 300,000 tonnes and 285,000 tonnes, respectively, in 2012. The World Bank estimates that value-added agriculture contributed 4% of GDP...
Articles & Analysis | Investment drives increasing production of palm oil from The Report: Gabon 2014
An historic staple of West and Central African agriculture, palm oil production on the continent began to decline in the 1960s as African governments prioritised oil and mineral extraction over agriculture. At the same time, the establishment of large-scale oil palm farms in Asia pushed down the price of imported palm oil products, prompting a further decline in Africa’s...
Articles & Analysis | Comparative advantages: New sector policies to enhance investment and output from The Report: Gabon 2014
The ratification of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (Programme Détaillé pour le Développement Agricole en Afrique, PDDAA) by Gabon in May 2013 is a step towards increasing output in one of the government’s priority sectors. Introduced in 2003 by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, the PDDAA is an African...
Articles & Analysis | Spurring the development of downstream timber processing from The Report: Gabon 2014
Developing the downstream timber industry is a central element of Gabon’s strategy to achieve economic diversification and long-term growth through domestic processing of its natural resources. With 85% of the country under tropical forest cover, the timber sector benefits from an extensive raw materials supply. It is also a major employer, and absorbs more of the...
Chapter | Agriculture & Forestry from The Report: Gabon 2014
With a tropical climate and arable land to spare, Gabon has significant potential to expand agriculture, yet the sector remains somewhat overlooked. One-fifth of the country’s total arable land has not been developed for agriculture, and the country remains largely dependent on food imports to meet its consumption requirements.
The sector has shown recent growth, roughly 5% year-on-...