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

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  • Wane, Abdrahmane
  • Mballo, Aliou Diouf
  • Homsi, Cabrelle Lauriane Dzoukou
  • Diakhaté, Pathé
  • Memboup, Rahimatou

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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 shockprone 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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  • Wane, Abdrahmane & Mballo, Aliou Diouf & Homsi, Cabrelle Lauriane Dzoukou & Diakhaté, Pathé & Memboup, Rahimatou, 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 Journal, Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), vol. 12(3), October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aieabj:347564
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.347564
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