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

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dc.creatorMinten, Bart
dc.creatorTamru, Seneshaw
dc.creatorReardon, Thomas
dc.date2019-09-12
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:41Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:04:41Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:02:54Z
dc.descriptionWe 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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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145579
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93052
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.publisherFederal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Policy Studies Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceMinten, Bart; Tamru, Seneshaw; and Reardon, Thomas. 2019. Post-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 135. Washington, DC; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Policy Studies Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145579
dc.subjectretail marketing
dc.subjectsupply chains
dc.subjectrural-urban food supply chains
dc.subjectteff
dc.subjectmilk
dc.subjecteragrostis tef
dc.subjecttrade
dc.subjectdairy value chains
dc.subjectpostharvest losses
dc.titlePost-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains: Evidence from Ethiopia
dc.typeWorking Paper

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