Vol. 12 No. 3 (2023)
Full Research Articles

Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the Sahel: the case of agropastoral systems in Senegal

Abdrahmane Wane
ILRI Regional Representative for West Africa
Mballo Aliou Diouf
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Dzoukou Homsi Cabrelle Lauriane
Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Diakhate Pathe
Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Memboup Rahimatou
Université Laval

Published 2023-09-04

Keywords

  • behaviours,
  • economic loss,
  • optimal loss,
  • pastoralism,
  • Sahel

How to Cite

Wane, A., Aliou Diouf, M., Cabrelle Lauriane , D. H., Pathe, D., & Rahimatou , M. (2023). Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the Sahel: the case of agropastoral systems in Senegal. Bio-Based and Applied Economics, 12(3), 243–259. https://doi.org/10.36253/bae-13521

Abstract

Food loss is a critical issue in Africa, but investigation has mainly been limited to quantity loss. Economic losses are likely to be more significant but are widely ignored. Regarding ruminant-related losses, it remains challenging to identify the optimal harvest point. Focusing on Sahelian agropastoral systems, where stakeholders operate in a shock-prone environment, our paper explains how critical actor behaviour is, and it addresses economic losses on live-animal transactions while integrating market behaviours into the analysis. Loss elimination being illusory in such a context, our findings pioneer a loss reduction approach that is supported by an appropriate optimisation programme tested on primary data collected from 202 agropastoral households in Senegal.

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