Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana
This paper analyzes the impacts of adopting restrictive import policies for chicken meat in Ghana, which would be like the policies adopted in Nigeria. A prohibitive tariff stimulates domestic chicken meat production but also imposes significant costs on consumers and encourages illicit trade. Howev...
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| author | Andam, Kwaw S. Arndt, Channing Hartley, Faaiqa |
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| description | This paper analyzes the impacts of adopting restrictive import policies for chicken meat in Ghana, which would be like the policies adopted in Nigeria. A prohibitive tariff stimulates domestic chicken meat production but also imposes significant costs on consumers and encourages illicit trade. However, a substantial poultry industry, producing mostly eggs, will exist independent of the border policy applied to chicken meat, due to the natural protection offered to local producers in the egg subsector. A subsector analysis of an egg production cluster in Ghana highlights the importance of trade links with other West African countries in developing the egg subsector. A focus on feed efficiency, through a mix of domestic production and imports, would benefit the layer industry, provide reasonable indications of prospects for globally competitive chicken meat production, and benefit other industries dependent on competitive feed, notably aquaculture. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1475372025-11-06T06:29:19Z Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana Andam, Kwaw S. Arndt, Channing Hartley, Faaiqa poultry food policies agricultural policies livestock revolution trade policies computable general equilibrium models agricultural development livestock international trade tariffs This paper analyzes the impacts of adopting restrictive import policies for chicken meat in Ghana, which would be like the policies adopted in Nigeria. A prohibitive tariff stimulates domestic chicken meat production but also imposes significant costs on consumers and encourages illicit trade. However, a substantial poultry industry, producing mostly eggs, will exist independent of the border policy applied to chicken meat, due to the natural protection offered to local producers in the egg subsector. A subsector analysis of an egg production cluster in Ghana highlights the importance of trade links with other West African countries in developing the egg subsector. A focus on feed efficiency, through a mix of domestic production and imports, would benefit the layer industry, provide reasonable indications of prospects for globally competitive chicken meat production, and benefit other industries dependent on competitive feed, notably aquaculture. 2017 2024-06-21T09:23:00Z 2024-06-21T09:23:00Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147537 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146170 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149936 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147877 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/5416 application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Andam, Kwaw S.; Arndt, Channing; and Hartley, Faaiqa. 2017. Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1687. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147537 |
| spellingShingle | poultry food policies agricultural policies livestock revolution trade policies computable general equilibrium models agricultural development livestock international trade tariffs Andam, Kwaw S. Arndt, Channing Hartley, Faaiqa Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana |
| title | Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana |
| title_full | Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana |
| title_fullStr | Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana |
| title_short | Eggs before chickens? Assessing Africa’s livestock revolution with an example from Ghana |
| title_sort | eggs before chickens assessing africa s livestock revolution with an example from ghana |
| topic | poultry food policies agricultural policies livestock revolution trade policies computable general equilibrium models agricultural development livestock international trade tariffs |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147537 |
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