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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| author | Abdrahmane Wane Mballo Aliou Diouf Dzoukou Homsi Cabrelle Lauriane Diakhate Pathe Memboup Rahimatou |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-5934ec77191c4c18b72da16e2a590d712023-09-05T14:26:26ZengFirenze University PressBio-based and Applied Economics2280-61802280-61722023-09-01Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel Abdrahmane Wane0Mballo Aliou DioufDzoukou Homsi Cabrelle Lauriane Diakhate PatheMemboup Rahimatou CIRADFood 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. https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/13521Behaviors - Economic loss - Optimal loss - Pastoralism - Sahel |
| spellingShingle | Abdrahmane Wane Mballo Aliou Diouf Dzoukou Homsi Cabrelle Lauriane Diakhate Pathe Memboup Rahimatou Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel Bio-based and Applied Economics Behaviors - Economic loss - Optimal loss - Pastoralism - Sahel |
| title | Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel |
| title_full | Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel |
| title_fullStr | Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel |
| title_short | Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel |
| title_sort | reducing food related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the sahel |
| topic | Behaviors - Economic loss - Optimal loss - Pastoralism - Sahel |
| url | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/13521 |
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