Leveraging the Rice Value Chain for Poverty Reduction in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar
Rice is an important agricultural product and food staple in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), especially for its three low-income members – Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar. These countries are net exporters of rice, similar to their more advanced...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26456773/ http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24711 |
| Summary: | Rice is an important agricultural
product and food staple in the Greater Mekong Subregion
(GMS), especially for its three low-income members –
Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar. These countries are net
exporters of rice, similar to their more advanced neighbors,
Thailand and Vietnam, but their rice sector potential is
still largely underutilized. They adopt slightly different
approaches to rice sector development in terms of the role
of the private sector, openness to foreign direct
investments (FDI), and commitment to open trade, yet they
all aim to remain competitive on export markets and to
leverage this competitiveness for poverty reduction and
boosted shared prosperity, while achieving other development
outcomes such as better nutrition, climate-smart
agriculture, and job creation. Cambodia, Lao PDR, and
Myanmar are the ‘target countries’ of this report, while
Thailand and Vietnam are the peers used for comparison and
experience-sharing throughout the report. This report
presents a summary of main findings, lessons learned, and
policy recommendations from these workshops. The spectrum of
discussions was broad, depending on the interest of each
country to learn specific experiences from other countries
or from the region and the world. Most workshops brought
together private and public sector representatives to
facilitate open dialogue and better integrate private sector
objectives into agricultural strategies and policies. |
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