The Transformation of Value Chains in Africa: Evidence from the First Large Survey of Maize Traders

Lenis Liverpool-Tasie, Thomas Reardon, Awa Sanou, Wale Ogunleye, Iredele Ogunbayo and Bolarin T. Omonona

No 270650, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research Briefs from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security (FSP)

Abstract: • The urban food security of Nigeria (and of million rural maize farmers and consumers) is conditioned, mediated, determined by traders. • The north-south long supply chain of maize is crucial to the country’s food security and its performance is in the hands of traders and conditioned by the quality of infrastructure and services. • Contrary to traditional views, traders rely on a well-developed third party logistics service sector market, and a warehouse rental market. • Extremely little (less than 1%) waste/loss of maize in the supply chain which mainly consists of handling of bags of maize. • Trader credit (advances) to farmers is near absent. • Traders and the trade and logistic segments of the maize value chain warrant more attention by researchers and policy makers.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01-16
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