How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal
Background: Over the past few decades, the Senegalese dairy sector has undergone a rapid transformation. Urbanization and shifts in urban consumers’ eating habits have contributed to increased demand for dairy products and the emergence of new quality requirements. Aim: This paper examines how qual...
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Background: Over the past few decades, the Senegalese dairy sector has undergone a rapid transformation. Urbanization and shifts in urban consumers’ eating habits have contributed to increased demand for dairy products and the emergence of new quality requirements. Aim: This paper examines how quality conventions influence the governance of dairy value chains in Senegal. We argue that value chain governance is not only determined by transaction characteristics, but also by how “lead firms” incorporate different quality conventions and translate these into value chain governance mechanisms. Methods: Through semi-structured interviews with consumer groups and stakeholders in the dairy value chain (producers, importers, processors, and retailers), we collected information on consumers’ selection criteria for dairy products and processors’ quality strategies, as well as on coordination mechanisms, contracts, and power relations within the value chain. Results: Our results show that the way lead firms normalize consumer expectations leads to specific organizational mechanisms in buyer-supplier relationships. Some combinations of quality strategies and governance mechanisms are better suited to fostering the sustainability of the local milk value chain in terms of social and economic development. Processors building viable relations with local milk producers are in particular ensuring the sustainability of the value chain, since they are able to cater to consumer preferences for fair and local milk-based products, while offering the guarantee of food safety processes. Conclusions: Our study highlights the indirect power that downstream actors (consumers) have on upstream actors (producers) via strategies (normalization) implemented by actors operating in an intermediate segment of the chain (processors). In other words, it shows that consumers, through their purchasing preferences, are playing a key role in the development of the local livestock sector.
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| spelling | doaj-art-eedb22ee8a5b42e0a41a775dbb25627f2025-01-23T13:28:03ZengCIRADRevue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux0035-18651951-67112024-07-017710.19182/remvt.37220How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of SenegalSerena Ferrari0Guillaume Duteurtre1Christian Corniaux2CIRAD, UMR SELMET, Saint-Louis, Sénégal ; SELMET, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, FranceSELMET, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France ; CIRAD, UMR SELMET, F-34398 Montpellier, FranceSELMET, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France ; CIRAD, UMR SELMET, F-34398 Montpellier, France Background: Over the past few decades, the Senegalese dairy sector has undergone a rapid transformation. Urbanization and shifts in urban consumers’ eating habits have contributed to increased demand for dairy products and the emergence of new quality requirements. Aim: This paper examines how quality conventions influence the governance of dairy value chains in Senegal. We argue that value chain governance is not only determined by transaction characteristics, but also by how “lead firms” incorporate different quality conventions and translate these into value chain governance mechanisms. Methods: Through semi-structured interviews with consumer groups and stakeholders in the dairy value chain (producers, importers, processors, and retailers), we collected information on consumers’ selection criteria for dairy products and processors’ quality strategies, as well as on coordination mechanisms, contracts, and power relations within the value chain. Results: Our results show that the way lead firms normalize consumer expectations leads to specific organizational mechanisms in buyer-supplier relationships. Some combinations of quality strategies and governance mechanisms are better suited to fostering the sustainability of the local milk value chain in terms of social and economic development. Processors building viable relations with local milk producers are in particular ensuring the sustainability of the value chain, since they are able to cater to consumer preferences for fair and local milk-based products, while offering the guarantee of food safety processes. Conclusions: Our study highlights the indirect power that downstream actors (consumers) have on upstream actors (producers) via strategies (normalization) implemented by actors operating in an intermediate segment of the chain (processors). In other words, it shows that consumers, through their purchasing preferences, are playing a key role in the development of the local livestock sector. https://revues.cirad.fr/index.php/REMVT/article/view/37220Milkvalue chain governancequality labelsconventionsdairy industrySenegal |
| spellingShingle | Serena Ferrari Guillaume Duteurtre Christian Corniaux How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux Milk value chain governance quality labels conventions dairy industry Senegal |
| title | How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal |
| title_full | How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal |
| title_fullStr | How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal |
| title_full_unstemmed | How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal |
| title_short | How quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of Senegal |
| title_sort | how quality conventions shape the governance of the dairy value chains of senegal |
| topic | Milk value chain governance quality labels conventions dairy industry Senegal |
| url | https://revues.cirad.fr/index.php/REMVT/article/view/37220 |
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