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Local Response to the Rapid Rise in Demand for Processed and Perishable Foods: Results of an Inventory of Processed Food Products in Dar es Salaam

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  • Snyder, Jason
  • Ijumba, Claire
  • Tschirley, David
  • Reardon, Thomas

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Recent research by the Food Security Innovation Lab (FSP) has documented the rapid rise in demand for processed and perishable foods in East and Southern Africa (ESA) (Tschirley et al, 2015a; Tschirley et al, 2015b). This work has highlighted four results. First, the penetration of processed foods in consumption patterns in the region has been deep, with an overall share in purchased food of nearly 70%. Second, the penetration has been broad, with the share of all processed food in total food purchases being nearly as high in rural areas as in urban, and nearly as high among the poor as among the upper classes. Third, the main difference across types of households is that low value added processed foods (“low processed”, e.g., purchased maize meal, milled rice, meat) predominate among lower-income and rural households, while high value added processed foods (“high processed”, e.g., vegetable oils, bread, food away from home) predominate in urban areas and among higher income households1. Fourth, expenditure elasticities of demand are highest – and all above 1.0 – for perishable high processed foods, perishable low processed foods, and non-perishable high processed foods, respectively. Note that this same order is maintained, and all values remain above 1.0, in both urban- and rural areas.

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  • Snyder, Jason & Ijumba, Claire & Tschirley, David & Reardon, Thomas, 2015. "Local Response to the Rapid Rise in Demand for Processed and Perishable Foods: Results of an Inventory of Processed Food Products in Dar es Salaam," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs 259798, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:miffpb:259798
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.259798
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    1. Tschirley, David & Reardon, Thomas, 2016. "Impact on Employment and Migration of Structural and Rural Transformation," Food Security International Development Working Papers 245895, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    2. Theriault, Veronique & Assima, Amidou & Vroegindewey, Ryan & Tschirley, David & Keita, Naman, 2017. "A City-Retail Outlet Inventory Of Processed Dairy And Grain Foods: Evidence From Mali," Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Papers 261675, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP).
    3. Reardon, Thomas & Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda & Minten, Bart, 2022. "IFAD Research Series 78: The Small and Medium Enterprises’ quiet revolution in the hidden middle of food systems in developing regions," IFAD Research Series 321998, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
    4. Thomas Reardon & Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie & Bart Minten, 2021. "Quiet Revolution by SMEs in the midstream of value chains in developing regions: wholesale markets, wholesalers, logistics, and processing," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(6), pages 1577-1594, December.
    5. Nigel Scott & Melinda Barnard-Tallier & Simon Batchelor, 2021. "Losing the Energy to Cook: An Exploration of Modern Food Systems and Energy Consumption in Domestic Kitchens," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-17, July.

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