Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia
Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these modern marketing arrangements perform in early stages of roll-out. We study this issue in the case of rural–urban milk value chains in Ethiopia, where...
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| author | Minten, Bart Habte, Yetimwork Baye, Kaleab Tamru, Seneshaw |
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| description | Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these modern marketing arrangements perform in early stages of roll-out. We study this issue in the case of rural–urban milk value chains in Ethiopia, where modern processing companies—selling branded pasteurized milk—and modern retail have expanded rapidly in recent years. We find overall that the adoption levels of hygienic practices and practices leading to safer milk by dairy producers in Ethiopia are low and that there are no significant improvements in the incipient modern milk value chains compared to traditional ones. While suppliers to modern processing companies are associated with more formal milk testing, they do not obtain price premiums for the adoption of improved practices, nor do they obtain higher prices overall. At the urban retail level, we find there are only small price differences between pasteurized and raw milk and that modern retailers sell pasteurized milk at lower prices, ceteris paribus. Modern value chains to better reward hygiene and food safety in these settings are therefore called for. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1403792025-12-08T10:11:39Z Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia Minten, Bart Habte, Yetimwork Baye, Kaleab Tamru, Seneshaw value chains dairies food quality milk urban areas food safety marketing rural areas prices Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these modern marketing arrangements perform in early stages of roll-out. We study this issue in the case of rural–urban milk value chains in Ethiopia, where modern processing companies—selling branded pasteurized milk—and modern retail have expanded rapidly in recent years. We find overall that the adoption levels of hygienic practices and practices leading to safer milk by dairy producers in Ethiopia are low and that there are no significant improvements in the incipient modern milk value chains compared to traditional ones. While suppliers to modern processing companies are associated with more formal milk testing, they do not obtain price premiums for the adoption of improved practices, nor do they obtain higher prices overall. At the urban retail level, we find there are only small price differences between pasteurized and raw milk and that modern retailers sell pasteurized milk at lower prices, ceteris paribus. Modern value chains to better reward hygiene and food safety in these settings are therefore called for. 2023-10 2024-03-14T12:09:26Z 2024-03-14T12:09:26Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140379 en Open Access Springer Minten, Bart; Habte, Yetimwork; Baye, Kaleab; and Tamru, Seneshaw. 2023. Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia. European Journal of Development Research 35: 1197–1223. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-023-00575-z |
| spellingShingle | value chains dairies food quality milk urban areas food safety marketing rural areas prices Minten, Bart Habte, Yetimwork Baye, Kaleab Tamru, Seneshaw Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia |
| title | Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Food safety and incipient modern value chains: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | food safety and incipient modern value chains evidence from milk in ethiopia |
| topic | value chains dairies food quality milk urban areas food safety marketing rural areas prices |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140379 |
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