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Despite recent yet fragile economic growth, structural change in Africa has been slow and the continent is faced with the need for more inclusive and sustainable growth. This challenge implies rethinking development strategies and adopting multi-sectoral and place-based approaches.

La croissance et la jeunesse de la population active représentent un atout considérable pour le développement de l'Afrique. Mais il s'agit aussi d'un défi majeur car l'arrivée massive des jeunes sur des marchés du travail très peu structurés est porteuse de fortes tensions. Ce défi impose des politiques publiques volontaristes ciblant la formation et l'appui aux secteurs à fort contenu en main-d'oeuvre.

Malgré une croissance économique récente mais fragile, le continent a connu une lente transformation structurelle et est confronté à l'impératif d'une croissance plus inclusive et durable. Ce défi impose de réinvestir les stratégies de développement et l'adoption d'approches multisectorielles et territorialisées.

This paper explores the opportunities that economic diversification offers to foster structural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa while absorbing the growing youth labour force and providing them with the requisite skills.

International audience ; The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of the world. These systems present huge gaps in terms of modes of exploitation of natural resources, levels of capital use, productivity and market integration. They reflect various stages of transformation of agriculture depending on their technical level, their integration into globalized markets and the structural changes of national economies around the world. They also echo the transition from agrarian societies – organized around the relationships between rural communities and with their natural environment –, to predominantly urban ones characterized by a high degree of division of labor, where agricultural production is increasingly implemented through processes of artificialization of cultivated areas and the industrialization of the food chain. And yet, in absolute terms, there have never been as many farmers globally as there are today.

International audience ; The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of the world. These systems present huge gaps in terms of modes of exploitation of natural resources, levels of capital use, productivity and market integration. They reflect various stages of transformation of agriculture depending on their technical level, their integration into globalized markets and the structural changes of national economies around the world. They also echo the transition from agrarian societies – organized around the relationships between rural communities and with their natural environment –, to predominantly urban ones characterized by a high degree of division of labor, where agricultural production is increasingly implemented through processes of artificialization of cultivated areas and the industrialization of the food chain. And yet, in absolute terms, there have never been as many farmers globally as there are today.

International audience ; The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of the world. These systems present huge gaps in terms of modes of exploitation of natural resources, levels of capital use, productivity and market integration. They reflect various stages of transformation of agriculture depending on their technical level, their integration into globalized markets and the structural changes of national economies around the world. They also echo the transition from agrarian societies – organized around the relationships between rural communities and with their natural environment –, to predominantly urban ones characterized by a high degree of division of labor, where agricultural production is increasingly implemented through processes of artificialization of cultivated areas and the industrialization of the food chain. And yet, in absolute terms, there have never been as many farmers globally as there are today.

International audience ; The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of the world. These systems present huge gaps in terms of modes of exploitation of natural resources, levels of capital use, productivity and market integration. They reflect various stages of transformation of agriculture depending on their technical level, their integration into globalized markets and the structural changes of national economies around the world. They also echo the transition from agrarian societies – organized around the relationships between rural communities and with their natural environment –, to predominantly urban ones characterized by a high degree of division of labor, where agricultural production is increasingly implemented through processes of artificialization of cultivated areas and the industrialization of the food chain. And yet, in absolute terms, there have never been as many farmers globally as there are today.

International audience ; The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of the world. These systems present huge gaps in terms of modes of exploitation of natural resources, levels of capital use, productivity and market integration. They reflect various stages of transformation of agriculture depending on their technical level, their integration into globalized markets and the structural changes of national economies around the world. They also echo the transition from agrarian societies – organized around the relationships between rural communities and with their natural environment –, to predominantly urban ones characterized by a high degree of division of labor, where agricultural production is increasingly implemented through processes of artificialization of cultivated areas and the industrialization of the food chain. And yet, in absolute terms, there have never been as many farmers globally as there are today.

Article disponible en ligne: http://www.chambres-agriculture.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/National/FAL_commun/publications/National/Revue_Chambres-agriculture_1033_2014_Afrique.pdf ; National audience ; Le choix du modèle agricole en Afrique revêt comme partout dans le monde une importance stratégique. Faisant preuve d'une grande réactivité et d'une grande capacité d'innovation, l'agriculture familiale doit donc être soutenue par des politiques agricoles volontaristes. (Résumé d'auteur)

Article disponible en ligne: http://www.chambres-agriculture.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/National/FAL_commun/publications/National/Revue_Chambres-agriculture_1033_2014_Afrique.pdf ; National audience ; Le choix du modèle agricole en Afrique revêt comme partout dans le monde une importance stratégique. Faisant preuve d'une grande réactivité et d'une grande capacité d'innovation, l'agriculture familiale doit donc être soutenue par des politiques agricoles volontaristes. (Résumé d'auteur)