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Book (stand-alone)Consumers’ concerns and external drivers in food markets 2015
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No results found.The objective of this report is to analyse the major tastes and preferences of consumers in food consumption, as well as expected changes in these over time. We identify five important consumer trends and purchase drivers: food safety and health benefits; corporate social responsibility; production systems and innovations; sustainability; and food origin. For each of these trends we will consider relevant actions that are being implemented by governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) an d the private sector. -
Book (stand-alone)African Urban Consumers and Food Supply and Distribution Systems
Food Supply and Distribution to Cities in French-Speaking Africa
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This study is an overview intended to help develop an approach to food supply and distribution systems (FSDSs) focusing on the consumer as autonomous actor. Following a brief discussion of the lack of attention to African urban consumers in policies, programmes and research on African FSDSs, Chapter 1 offers an analytical framework that takes into account the variety of cultural, sociological and economic affecting the urban consumer in French-speaking West Africa. In Chapter 2, the consumer is considered in relation to some features of households and consumption models. Factors governing the shopping behaviour of the various urban social categories are then reviewed in Chapter 3: on the one hand, factors related to physical availability and financial accessibility of food and, on the other,those bound up with relations between consumers and traders. Chapters 4 and 5 are devoted to discussing the impact of urban consumer behaviour on FSDSs, as well as likely future changes in urban life and their effects on the attitudes of the urban population. The concluding chapter deals with four aspects of the issue: improving knowledge of consumers as actors, strengthening consumer associations, the need for hygiene and nutrition education for consumers and traders and improving state quality control services. -
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Food Supply and Distribution to Cities in French-Speaking Africa
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While cities play a key role in the social and economic development of Africa, the interests of the urban population have long been perceived by national and international development agencies as being opposed to those of the rural population. The supply of food to cities, however, highlights the remarkable vitality shown by both urban and rural actors, their common interests and the significant constraints they both face. Thus, policy-makers faced with the challenge of promoting efficient food supply and distribution systems (FSDS) in African cities, should not focus exclusively on improving quantity, regularity, quality and price for the urban consumers but also on how such improvements can be translated into increased income for farmers. This and other studies on FSDSs in African cities have been undertaken in order to provide a framework for policy-makers in meeting this challenge. This paper is based on research carried out by the author in some sub-Saharan African countries, including appraisal studies for market rehabilitation projects funded by Coopération Française and the Caisse Française de Development (Wilhelm, 1994).1 It consists of three chapters, the first of which provides a general overview of food supply systems and discusses the role and functions of urban markets in sub-Saharan Africa. The second chapter analyses the internal organization and operation of major supply and redistribution markets and the conclusions and recommendations for improving FSD Ss in Africa are outlined in Chapter 3.
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