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It identifies critical constraints affecting value chain actors, then specifies reforms and investment needs to address those challenges. The note highlights benchmarking lessons from Vietnam, explaining how productivity gains, better investment coordination, and access to remunerative export markets improved farmer incomes, employment, public revenues, and foreign exchange earnings.","Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nNIGERIA  \nShutterstock  \nPublic  \nPOLICY REFORMS AND INVESTMENT PRIORITIES IN THE CASHEW NUTS VALUE CHAIN  \nPolicy note, July 2021  \n2 I page Policy Reforms and Investment Priorities in the Cashew Nuts Value Chain  \nThis note aims to summarize policy reforms and investment priorities to increase the productivity and competitiveness of the cashew nuts value chain. The note discusses critical challenges faced by value chain actors, outlines the reforms and investments required to address challenges, and draws and shares granular lessons on successful models of cashew nuts value chain development based on the Vietnam experience. The note was prepared by Elliot Mghenyi and draws largely upon the World Bank report1 titled“Transforming Agribusiness for Inclusive Recovery, Jobs Creation and Poverty Reduction: Policy Reforms and Investment Priorities,” authored by Elliot Mghenyi, Cora Dankers, James Thurlow, and ChidozieAnyiro.  \nBenchmarking Nigeria against Vietnam  \nKey message \\# 1. Nigeria can draw important lessons from Vietnam on reforms and investments to enhance the competitiveness of cashew nuts value chains.  \n• Vietnam has emerged as a global leader in agribusiness and a major exporter of cashew nuts and several other commodities and products that are important in Nigeria’s agribusiness sector. In 2019, Vietnam generated exports of cashew nuts, seafood, vegetables and fruits, cassava rice, coffee, tea, black pepper, wood and wood products, and rubber worth about US$40 billion – with cashew nuts alone contributing about US$3.3 billion in export earnings.  \n• Vietnam’s competitiveness in these value chains is founded on productivity growth in the on-farm and off-farm segments, and better coordination of investments across value chains.  \n• Access to remunerative export markets has increased returns to investments for agribusinesses, created jobs in agribusiness value chains, raised the incomes of farmers, and increased foreign exchange earnings and public revenues.  \n• The rise in agricultural wages and farmer incomes contributed to about 75 percent of the poverty reduction in rural areas between 2010 and 2018.  \n• The strong performance of agricultural value chains in Vietnam has ushered a model of structural transformation that could serve Nigeria very well. It has uplifted the rural economy as farm incomeshave been invested in rural sectors and created job opportunities outside farming. Labor released from farming has been productively absorbed in the rural non-farm sector, which differs from the usual pattern where labor migrates to urban sectors leaving rural sectors without skills and a lack of services and goods necessary to catalyze rural development.  \nSource: World Bank, 2020.  \n1 The report can be accessed at [https://imagebank2.worldbank.org/Search/33064869](https://imagebank2.worldbank.org/Search/33064869)  \nPolicy Reforms and Investment Priorities in the Cashew Nuts Value Chain page I 3  \nCritical Challenges Facing Value Chain Actors  \n(a) Production Constraints  \nKey message \\# 2. Nigeria lost its leading position as a cashew nuts producer because of a lack of improvements in production technology. In particular, old cashew trees were not optimally replaced with new and higher-yielding varieties. 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