Vol. 12 No. 3 (2023): in press
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Reducing food-related economic loss to improve food security and cattle trade in the structural embeddedness context of the Sahel

Abdrahmane Wane
CIRAD

Published 2023-09-04

Keywords

  • Behaviors - 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 structural embeddedness context of the Sahel . Bio-Based and Applied Economics, 12(3). Retrieved from https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/13521

Abstract

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.