African domestic supply booms in value chains of fruits, vegetables, and animal products fueled by spontaneous clusters of SMEs
Thomas Reardon,
Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool‐Tasie,
Ben Belton
et al.
Abstract:There is an international consensus that Africans consume less fruits and vegetables (FV), and animal products (AP) than they need for adequate nutrition, and that production and supply chains of these products are constrained. Yet, in this paper, we show that despite these problems, there is a lot of dynamism in demand and supply of these nutrient‐dense products in Africa: (1) macro evidence of “domestic supply booms"—with supply growing as fast as or faster than in Asia and Latin America; (2) only 2–4% of FV… Show more
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