Urban food retailing and food prices in Africa: the case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Assefa, Teshale; Abebe, Girum; Lamoot, Indra; Minten, Bart

doi:10.1108/jadee-02-2015-0009

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“…Yet, to our knowledge, little research has analyzed the retail prices of processed foods across retail outlets in Mali, or in sub-Saharan Africa in general, through hedonic models. Two exceptions are Asseffa et al [11] and Minten and Reardon [12], who investigated the prices of cereals, produce, or meat in Ethiopia and Madagascar, respectively.…”

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“…There are 122 firms manufacturing cookies and crackers, 76 for pasta, and 35 for couscous. There is also a notable number of manufacturing companies for more traditional foods, such as djouka (15), monikourou (nine), and degue djalan (11).…”

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“…To our knowledge, very few studies have used similar methods to investigate urban consumer prices in Africa. Among the exceptions are Assefa et al [11] and Minten and Reardon [12], who examined urban food retailing prices in East and Southern Africa. Second, in addition to prices, information on product ingredients, packaging materials, and labeling (e.g., the presence of barcodes and date stamps) was collected, allowing us to examine aspects related to food safety, healthfulness, and competitiveness.…”

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Retailing of Processed Dairy and Grain Products in Mali: Evidence from a City Retail Outlet Inventory

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Abstract:As in many sub-Saharan African countries, Mali is experiencing an unprecedented rate of urbanization and, with it, changes to its agri-food system. As more people live in urban areas, the demand for processed foods has been increasing rapidly. These changes have important implications for food and nutrition security. Yet, little is known about the scale and scope of the retailing of processed foods. To better understand this segment, we conducted a city retail outlet inventory of processed dairy and cereal foods in 2016. The main findings are that: (1) food availability is greater in the capital, high-income neighborhoods, and supermarkets; (2) there is a high prevalence of imported foods; (3) added sugar and vegetable fats are listed as a top-three ingredient in a quarter of processed products, highlighting issues related to healthfulness; (4) price premiums are paid for products that are imported from Europe, use improved packaging, and are retailed in supermarkets. Taken together, our findings indicate that the transformation in the Malian agri-food system is still at an early stage. The growing demand for processed foods presents economic opportunities for Malian farmers and processors, especially if they can improve product quality, packaging, and distribution.

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“…Despite the prohibition of foreign direct investment in food retail in Ethiopia, a domestic modern private retail sector has quickly emerged. However, its share of food retail is still very small compared to most other developing countries (Assefa et al 2016). Using the data of the retail survey described above, we run a regression with the share of product lost in the week before the survey as the dependent variable and look at its association with the type of retail outlet, controlling for the type of product and location.…”

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Post-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia

Minten¹,

Tamru²,

Reardon³

2019

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We study post-harvest losses (PHL) in important and rapidly growing rural-urban value chains in Ethiopia. We analyze self-reported PHL from different value chain agents-farmers, wholesale traders, processors, and retailers-based on unique large-scale data sets for two major commercial commodities, the storable staple teff and the perishable liquid milk. PHL in the most prevalent value chain pathways for teff and milk amount to between 2.2 and 3.3 percent and 2.1 and 4.3 percent of total produced quantities, respectively. We complement these findings with primary data from urban food retailers for more than 4,000 commodities. Estimates of PHL from this research overall are found to be significantly lower than is commonly assumed. We further find that the emerging modern retail sector in Ethiopia is characterized by half the level of PHL than are observed in the traditional retail sector. This is likely due to more stringent quality requirements at procurement, sales of more packaged-and therefore better protected-commodities, and better refrigeration, storage, and sales facilities. The further expected expansion of modern retail in these settings should likely lead to a lowering of PHL in food value chains, at least at the retail level.

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“…Modern retail and different food distribution and retail systems are emerging. Assefa et al (2016) analyze the urban food retail market in Ethiopia and find increasing differentiation in food retail markets in 5 Data from the Ethiopian Meat and Dairy Industry Development Institute. 6 For example, Smith et al (2014) note that food eaten away from home increased from 10 to 49 percent of total food expenditures in the US between 1900 and 2010 and that similar fast changes are seen in this area in a number of quickly transforming economies such as India, China, and Mauritius.…”

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Evolving food systems in Ethiopia: Past, present and future

Minten¹,

Dereje²,

Bachewe³

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Urban food retailing and food prices in Africa: the case of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Cited by 22 publications

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Retailing of Processed Dairy and Grain Products in Mali: Evidence from a City Retail Outlet Inventory

Retailing of Processed Dairy and Grain Products in Mali: Evidence from a City Retail Outlet Inventory

Post-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia

Evolving food systems in Ethiopia: Past, present and future

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