NATIONAL SEMINAR ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITIVENESS OF AGRo-FOODS Small and medium-sized enterprises (smes)

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NATIONAL SEMINAR ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
AND COMPETITIVENESS OF AGRo-FOODS Small and
medium-sized enterprises (smes)
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• Prepared by the
• International Bureau of WIPO
• Dar es salaam, December 14 and 15, 2009
• Holiday Inn Hotel

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• The
• Comparative Advantages and Challenges
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• Facing African Agro Products
• in the Global Market
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• By
• Francis Mwimanzi

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Presentation Map

1. Introduction and Background
2. Introduction to the topic why this
3. African Context in Agro-products
4. The Africas Comparative Advantages and
   Challenges
5. Inferences Comparisons and Contrasts
6. What then way forward
7. Conclusion

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Introduction and Background

• Economists commonly argue that poor
• Countries suffer from a development vicious
• circle .the predominance of subsistence
• Production inhibits accumulation of savings
• leading to low savings, low consumption which
• further inhibits investment and because
• investment is low, economic growth is stagnant.
• unfortunately
• Many African economies fit this description.

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That is the supply side production aspects

• Accordingly the target market exacerbate the
  problem by market access barriers, regulations,
  prohibitive consumer preferences in developed
  country markets, which further inhibit the
  incentive to invest, particularly for export.

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Then the market side creates a scenario

• Where, African exports are commodity-dependent,
  where the buyer
• determines the rules of the game, sometimes
  without notice!
• Which has until recently caused a long-term
  decline in Africas terms of
• trade.
• And supply-side deficiencies, principally
• poor physical and fiscal infrastructure and
• low levels of human resource where
• governance problems and lack
• of capacity
• are abound.

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Introduction to the topic

• Africas advantages and challenges in the global
  market are legion, and have been massively
  researched and documented. There are mountains of
  data to refer to, most of which are available in
  the internet, various research papers, newsletter
  and journals
• Here I will just attempt to summarize them
  against the backdrop of Africas broader
  advantages and challenges in the global trade.

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Our main interest is in.

• How can these challenges be turned into tools of
  advantages and opportunities to increase its
  presence and market share in the global market?
• and
• How can African producers turn their advantages
  into tangible assets in the global agro-products
  market?

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The Africas Comparative Advantages and
Challenges

• As we all understand today, a feature of global
• economic systems is the rise of global value
• chains, embodying networks of actors, tied
• together by relationships, linking producers,
• processors, marketers, regulators and
• distributors, most times than not across
• boarders and oceans along the chain.

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.through the value chain
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in production
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in production
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in infrastructure
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In markets and marketing
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Then??

• Besides the mentioned comparative advantages
  Africa has, it also has a substantial share of
  challenges that needs to be addressed before
  Africa could seizing these opportunities,
  particularly in building productive capacities,
  market access and entry.
• What are the challenges then

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Comparative challenges
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Comparative challenges
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Comparative challenges
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Production..challenge in
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Infrastructure and logistics
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Markets and Marketing
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Markets and Marketing
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Regulations.
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prices
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Policies in target markets
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What is then the way forward
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Conclusion