Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/321779 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Bio-based and Applied Economics (BAE) [ISSN:] 2280-6172 [Volume:] 12 [Issue:] 3 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 243-259
Publisher: 
Firenze University Press, Florence
Abstract: 
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 shock-prone 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.
Subjects: 
behaviours
economic loss
optimal loss
pastoralism
Sahel
JEL: 
C61
D13
Q12
Q13
R20
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Document Type: 
Article

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