Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria
Modern cooling technologies that utilize renewable energy sources have been increasingly recognized as a promising tool to address a multitude of challenges emerging in progressively complex food systems in developing countries. When provided as cold-storages inside horticulture markets, cooling tec...
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| author | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Futoshi Bawa, Dauda Kamaldeen, Salaudeen O. Edeh, Hyacinth O. Hernandez, Manuel A. |
| author_browse | Bawa, Dauda Edeh, Hyacinth O. Hernandez, Manuel A. Kamaldeen, Salaudeen O. Takeshima, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Futoshi |
| author_facet | Takeshima, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Futoshi Bawa, Dauda Kamaldeen, Salaudeen O. Edeh, Hyacinth O. Hernandez, Manuel A. |
| author_sort | Takeshima, Hiroyuki |
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| description | Modern cooling technologies that utilize renewable energy sources have been increasingly recognized as a promising tool to address a multitude of challenges emerging in progressively complex food systems in developing countries. When provided as cold-storages inside horticulture markets, cooling technologies can potentially contribute to improved quality of products and strengthened vertical linkages. Knowledge gaps about the actual impacts of these technologies in developing countries remain, especially in Africa south of Sahara (SSA). This study partly fills this knowledge gap by providing evidence from the evaluation of recent interventions in northeast Nigeria in which 7 small solar-powered cold-storages were installed across 7 horticulture markets. Combinations of difference-in-difference and variants of propensity-score-based methods suggest that using cold-storages significantly increased horticulture sales volumes and revenues of market-agents. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that increased net revenues for market-agents may be sufficiently large to recoup the investments and operating costs of cold-storages within a reasonable time frame. Using cold-storage also reduced the share of food loss and lengthened the products' shelf-life, while raised prices received by both market-agents and farmers, which were associated with improved product quality, expanded value-adding activities by market-agents, and increased use of advance payments. We find no evidence of negative spillover effects inside horticulture markets. Finally, additional food-science experiments confirm that cold-storages preserve original physical and nutritional qualities of key horticultural products several days longer than products stored under ambient temperature. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1434552025-12-08T10:11:39Z Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria Takeshima, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Futoshi Bawa, Dauda Kamaldeen, Salaudeen O. Edeh, Hyacinth O. Hernandez, Manuel A. solar energy food quality storage transformation sustainability capacity development food losses horticulture markets food systems Modern cooling technologies that utilize renewable energy sources have been increasingly recognized as a promising tool to address a multitude of challenges emerging in progressively complex food systems in developing countries. When provided as cold-storages inside horticulture markets, cooling technologies can potentially contribute to improved quality of products and strengthened vertical linkages. Knowledge gaps about the actual impacts of these technologies in developing countries remain, especially in Africa south of Sahara (SSA). This study partly fills this knowledge gap by providing evidence from the evaluation of recent interventions in northeast Nigeria in which 7 small solar-powered cold-storages were installed across 7 horticulture markets. Combinations of difference-in-difference and variants of propensity-score-based methods suggest that using cold-storages significantly increased horticulture sales volumes and revenues of market-agents. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that increased net revenues for market-agents may be sufficiently large to recoup the investments and operating costs of cold-storages within a reasonable time frame. Using cold-storage also reduced the share of food loss and lengthened the products' shelf-life, while raised prices received by both market-agents and farmers, which were associated with improved product quality, expanded value-adding activities by market-agents, and increased use of advance payments. We find no evidence of negative spillover effects inside horticulture markets. Finally, additional food-science experiments confirm that cold-storages preserve original physical and nutritional qualities of key horticultural products several days longer than products stored under ambient temperature. 2021-10-15 2024-05-22T12:14:16Z 2024-05-22T12:14:16Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143455 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293502_07 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293830_12 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093759 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-021-01196-2 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/food-policy/vol/98/suppl/C Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Yamauchi, Futoshi; Bawa, Dauda; Kamaldeen, Salaudeen O.; Edeh, Hyacinth O.; and Hernandez, Manuel A. 2021. Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2047. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134668. |
| spellingShingle | solar energy food quality storage transformation sustainability capacity development food losses horticulture markets food systems Takeshima, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Futoshi Bawa, Dauda Kamaldeen, Salaudeen O. Edeh, Hyacinth O. Hernandez, Manuel A. Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria |
| title | Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria |
| title_full | Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria |
| title_short | Solar-powered cold-storages and sustainable food system transformation: Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria |
| title_sort | solar powered cold storages and sustainable food system transformation evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast nigeria |
| topic | solar energy food quality storage transformation sustainability capacity development food losses horticulture markets food systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143455 |
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