Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia
It 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...
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| author | Hirvonen, Kalle Mohammed, Belay Minten, Bart Tamru, Seneshaw |
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| description | It 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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| spelling | CGSpace1432352025-11-06T06:36:13Z Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia Hirvonen, Kalle Mohammed, Belay Minten, Bart Tamru, Seneshaw value chains foods covid-19 vegetables marketing value chain analysis trade food security food prices prices pandemics food systems It 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. 2020-07-01 2024-05-22T12:12:39Z 2024-05-22T12:12:39Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143235 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133909 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133947 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134768 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hirvonen, 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. |
| spellingShingle | value chains foods covid-19 vegetables marketing value chain analysis trade food security food prices prices pandemics food systems Hirvonen, Kalle Mohammed, Belay Minten, Bart Tamru, Seneshaw Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia |
| title | Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Food marketing margins during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from vegetables in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | food marketing margins during the covid 19 pandemic evidence from vegetables in ethiopia |
| topic | value chains foods covid-19 vegetables marketing value chain analysis trade food security food prices prices pandemics food systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143235 |
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