Publisher's Synopsis
This comprehensive review demonstrates the potential of territorial tools to enhance value addition, deliver jobs, increase exports and provide markets for new and existing producers in targeted territories.
Territorial approaches to foster agro-industrial investment at local, country and regional levels are becoming increasingly relevant as policy-makers acknowledge the importance of place-specific factors - the endowment of natural and other productive resources together with social, institutional and knowledge capital. A number of instruments to attract agro-industrial investments in specific locations are therefore becoming mainstream, namely agro-based corridors, clusters and special economic zones, as well as agro-industrial parks and incubators.
This sourcebook appraises these instruments and examines the practices that lead to successful outcomes. It notes that the implementation of territorial tools also poses challenges however, such as when planners and practitioners ignore the specificities of the investments, policies and processes required. The book concludes that these tools have potential for catalytic impact, providing planners respect demonstrated principles and follow good design and implementation practices.
