Postharvest Losses and their Determinants: A Challenge to Creating a Sustainable Cooking Banana Value Chain in Uganda
| Autor: | Enoch Kikulwe, Susan Ajambo, Diego Naziri, Kephas Nowakunda, Stanslus Okurut, Dietmar Stoian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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economic postharvest losses
S1 Vendor cooking banana lcsh:TJ807-830 Geography Planning and Development lcsh:Renewable energy sources 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Agricultural science 0502 economics and business Sustainable agriculture Production (economics) Value chain lcsh:Environmental sciences physical postharvest losses 0105 earth and related environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 Food security Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants 05 social sciences food and beverages food security Building and Construction Residual value lcsh:TD194-195 Sustainability Postharvest value chain 050202 agricultural economics & policy Business |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 7, p 2381 (2018) Volume 10 Issue 7 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su10072381 |
| Popis: | Postharvest losses (PHL) result in direct food and income losses to farmers and consumers globally. PHL reduction strategies offer unique opportunities to contribute to sustainable food systems for increased food security and farm incomes for more than 200 million food insecure people in sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of empirical information remains a major challenge to operationalization of PHL reduction strategies in many countries of the region. This paper utilizes cross-sectional data to determine the extent and factors that are influencing postharvest losses in the cooking-banana value chain in Uganda. We find that 14.9% of all the cooking bananas that are produced in Uganda suffer postharvest deterioration along the value chain (7.2% of the bananas deteriorate completely and have no residual value, while 7.7% deteriorate partially and are sold at discounted prices), mostly affecting retailers. At farm level, female headed households experience more losses than those headed by males. Household headship, household size, proportion of land allocated to banana production, and monthly banana production are the principal determinants of PHL at farm level. At retail level, such losses are mainly determined by sex of the vendor and group membership. The findings call for comprehensive and gender-responsive PHL reduction strategies. |
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