Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel
Food loss is a critical issue in Africa and is mostly limited to quantity loss. Economic losses are likely to be larger but widely ignored. Regarding ruminant-related losses, the optimal harvest point remains difficult to identify. Focusing on Sahelian (agro)pastoral systems with stakeholders operat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Bio-based and Applied Economics |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/13521 |
| Summary: | Food loss is a critical issue in Africa and is mostly limited to quantity loss. Economic losses are likely to be larger but widely ignored. Regarding ruminant-related losses, the optimal harvest point remains difficult to identify. Focusing on Sahelian (agro)pastoral systems with stakeholders operating in a shock-prone environment, our paper explains how critical the actor behaviours are and addresses economic losses on live-animal transactions while fully integrating market behaviors which, should be incorporated in the analysis. Mitigation costs being illusory in such contexts, our findings pioneer a loss reduction approach supported by an appropriate optimization program tested on primary data collected from 202 (agro)pastoral households in Senegal.
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| ISSN: | 2280-6180 2280-6172 |