Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Development
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GH
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierKwaw Andam: 0000-0002-4138-1693
cg.creator.identifierSeth Asante: 0000-0001-5960-3189
cg.creator.identifierXinshen Diao: 0000-0003-4843-1670
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ghana Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.identifier.urlhttps://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CSAE2017&paper_id=888
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorAndam, Kwaw S.
dc.contributor.authorTschirley, David
dc.contributor.authorAsante, Seth
dc.contributor.authorAl-Hassan, Ramatu M.
dc.contributor.authorDiao, Xinshen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:23:46Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:23:46Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148072
dc.titleObserving Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major citiesen
dcterms.abstractThis paper describes key features of processed food retail within the context of food system transformation in Ghana—the spread of supermarkets, the sources of processed food products, and the use of traditional and modern retail outlets as marketing channels. The data come from retail inventories of packaged products— poultry meat and eggs, processed tomatoes, and milled grains, roots, and tubers— in four major cities. We find that the interplay of urbanization, imports, and domestic processing and packaging has led to some surprising outcomes. Imports are dominant, as expected, especially for products such as milled rice and tomato paste. Yet, remarkably, import shares are lower (63 percent) in Accra, the principal city, compared to more than 70 percent in three smaller cities, and imported products have higher shares in traditional retail outlets than in modern retail outlets.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAndam, Kwaw S.; Tschirley, David; Asante, Seth; Al-Hassan, Ramatu M.; and Diao, Xinshen. 2017. Observing Ghana’s food system transformation through an assessment of processed food retail in four major cities. Presented at CSAE Conference 2017: Economic Development in Africa. St Catherine's College, Oxford, March 19-21, 2017. https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CSAE2017&paper_id=888en
dcterms.issued2017
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/5775
dcterms.subjectimportsen
dcterms.subjectfoodsen
dcterms.subjectpackagingen
dcterms.subjecturbanizationen
dcterms.subjectprocessed foodsen
dcterms.subjectforeign tradeen
dcterms.subjectsupermarketsen
dcterms.subjectfood processingen
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen
dcterms.typeConference Paper

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