Can local products compete against imports in West Africa? Supply- and demand-side perspectives on chicken, rice, and tilapia in Ghana

Ragasa, Catherine; Andam, Kwaw S.; Asante, Seth; Amewu, Sena

doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100448

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“…The growing body of literature (Mkhabela and Nyhodo 2011;Bett et al 2012;Goldar et al 2012;Davids et al 2015;Hatzenbuehler et al 2016;Karodia 2017;Arnade and Davis 2019;Ragasa et al 2020) in South Africa and worldwide that links the relationship amongst the variables of interest in this study has generated varied results but have not empirically answered the question investigated in the present study. Mkhabela and Nyhodo (2011), analyzed farm-retail price transmission of poultry in South Africa utilizing price data from 2000 to 2010 using the Houck and Error Correction Model.…”

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“…By employing the tariff change as a dummy to capture the policy change in addition to more up-to-date monthly data, this paper differs from the study of Davids et al (2015) as well as that of Davids and Meyer (2017). Ragasa et al (2020) assessed the competitiveness of food that is domestically produced in West Africa with a focus on rice, chicken, and tilapia. The empirical results of the study revealed that consumers prefer domestic chicken and tilapia over imported chicken and tilapia due to their freshness.…”

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Do Import Tariff Adjustments Bolster Domestic Production? Analysis of the South African-Brazilian Poultry Market Case

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2022

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The South African poultry industry plays an important food security contributory role, hence, consumer and producer interests ought to be accounted for in order to maintain the long term value of the industry in the presence of import competition. This study used the Error Correction Model (ECM) to investigate the relationship between the variables as well as the Impulse Response Model to assess the level of responsiveness of import volume and domestic production due to changes in the import tariff for the period 2010m04 to 2020m06. The ECM results with a negative ECT value of −0.53, indicate that a long run relationship exists between domestic broiler production volume, imported broiler quantity and the Ad Valorem import tariff. The Impulse Response Model has shown that over ten periods, the adjustments in the Ad Valorem tariff initially produce desirable results showing that a one standard deviation shock to the Ad Valorem tariff culminates in a sharp decline in import volume and a sharp increase in domestic volume produced. However, this response cannot be maintained over the long term, thus signaling the need for a more effective and viable solution other than an increase in the Ad Valorem import tariff to alleviate the stiff competition between domestic production and an increased supply of broiler imports. The study findings have policy implications for resolving internal issues in the South African poultry industry, such as improving production capacity and sector competitiveness at the same time maintaining the gains from trade especially for consumers.

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Do Import Tariff Adjustments Bolster Domestic Production? Analysis of the South African-Brazilian Poultry Market Case

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Muchopa

2022

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“…For instance, consumption in Europe and North America has long driven the production of tropical commodities and related deforestation (Byerlee and Rueda 2015). Dietary shifts resulting from rapid urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has led to increasing dependence on livestock products and cereal imports from Europe, South America, and Asia (Arouna et al 2021;Ragasa et al 2020). More recently, the combination of higher demand for vegetable oils and the transition to large-scale animal farming dependent on industrial feed has led to widespread deforestation in Indonesia for oil palm plantations (Austin et al 2017) and Brazil and Argentina for soy (Jamet and Chaumet 2016;Yao et al 2018).…”

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How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative

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There is an urgent need for countries to transition their national food and land-use systems toward food and nutritional security, climate stability, and environmental integrity. How can countries satisfy their demands while jointly delivering the required transformative change to achieve global sustainability targets? Here, we present a collaborative approach developed with the FABLE—Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land, and Energy—Consortium to reconcile both global and national elements for developing national food and land-use system pathways. This approach includes three key features: (1) global targets, (2) country-driven multi-objective pathways, and (3) multiple iterations of pathway refinement informed by both national and international impacts. This approach strengthens policy coherence and highlights where greater national and international ambition is needed to achieve global goals (e.g., the SDGs). We discuss how this could be used to support future climate and biodiversity negotiations and what further developments would be needed.

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“…Land fragmentation causes farmers to rely on water vendors instead of investing in irrigation infrastructure, which would be economically inefficient due to poor use of the potential generated. Rice tends to be the most difficult crop to promote of the four major grains under an import substitution strategy since both supply and demand-side approaches are required to improve local competitiveness [52]. More food needs to be produced on home grounds in Africa amid the 212 million malnourished and one billion more predicted by 2050 [53].…”

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Food systems have the potential to promote human health and enhance environmental sustainability; yet most African countries have decadal starvation and malnourishment due to unstable food systems lacking basic nutritional profiles. To understand the key questions of the African food production and food security crisis, it is important to evaluate the past and the present balance of food production and consumption quantitatively and comprehensively and identify resource constraints. This continental study analyzed water-land-food (WLF) nexus in recent decades and accessed whether these resources cope with different population growth projections, dietary changes and agricultural water management. The findings revealed

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Can local products compete against imports in West Africa? Supply- and demand-side perspectives on chicken, rice, and tilapia in Ghana

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