Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia

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dc.creatorHirvonen, Kalle
dc.creatorMohammed, Belay
dc.creatorMinten, Bart
dc.creatorTamru, Seneshaw
dc.date2020-07-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:12:39Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:12:39Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:22:32Z
dc.descriptionIt is widely feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to a significant worsening of the food security situation in low and middle-income countries. One reason for this is the disruption of food marketing systems and subsequent changes in farm and consumer prices. Based on primary data in Ethiopia collected just before the start and a few months into the pandemic, we assess changes in farm and consumer prices of four major vegetables and the contribution of different segments of the rural-urban value chain in urban retail price formation. We find large, but heterogeneous, price changes for different vegetables with relatively larger changes seen at the farm level, compared to the consumer level, leading to winners and losers among local vegetable farmers due to pandemicrelated trade disruptions. We further note that despite substantial hurdles in domestic trade reported by most value chain agents, increases in marketing – and especially transportation – costs have not been the major contributor to overall changes in retail prices. Marketing margins even declined for half of the vegetables studied. The relatively small changes in marketing margins overall indicate the resilience of these domestic value chains during the pandemic in Ethiopia.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143235
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/102497
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133909
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133947
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134768
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHirvonen, Kalle; Mohammed, Belay; Minten, Bart; and Tamru, Seneshaw. 2020. Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia. ESSP Working Paper 150. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133931.
dc.subjectvalue chains
dc.subjectfoods
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjectvegetables
dc.subjectmarketing
dc.subjectvalue chain analysis
dc.subjecttrade
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectfood prices
dc.subjectprices
dc.subjectpandemics
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.titleFood marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia
dc.typeWorking Paper

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