The impact of the informal sector on supply chains in Africa

Parrot Laurent, Biard Yannick, Klaver Dieuwke, Kabré Edit, Vannière Henri. 2024. The impact of the informal sector on supply chains in Africa. Supply Chain Forum, 12 p.

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Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Economie-gestion

Résumé : The informal sector adds a systemic layer of uncertainty and risk for the performance of Food Supply Chains in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on interviews conducted among all the agents directly involved in the FSCs and international statistics, we analysed how the informal sector affects five mango FSCs in Burkina Faso in their economic, social and environmental performance. The informal sector accounts for about 30% of the total FSCs value, 67% of the total production, and 99% of the workforce. The lack of statistics, lack of legal compliance, lack of public infrastructure, increases the probability and severity of any given risk and therefore hinders investments. Firms internalise the risks with horizontal and vertical integration, the support of subsidies, or by avoiding the costs of international standards compliance. As a result, we distinguish subsidised resilience from informal resilience. FSC's resilience in sub-Saharan Africa will depend on how the level of state intervention, legal compliance and law enforcement will affect the informal sector.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : chaîne d'approvisionnement, secteur informel, évaluation de l'impact, Mangifera indica, analyse du cycle de vie, exportation, secteur agroindustriel, impact sur l'environnement, chaîne d'approvisionnement alimentaire, mangue

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Burkina Faso

Mots-clés libres : Secteur informel, Risque, Resilience, Filière, Mangue

Classification Agris : E70 - Commerce, commercialisation et distribution

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 5 (2019-) - Territoires

Agences de financement européennes : European Commission, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development

Projets sur financement : (EU) Value Chain Analysis for Development Project

Auteurs et affiliations

• Parrot Laurent, CIRAD-PERSYST-UPR HortSys (MTQ) ORCID: 0000-0001-5712-9305 - auteur correspondant
• Biard Yannick, CIRAD-PERSYST-UPR HortSys (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-3974-3536
• Klaver Dieuwke, Wageningen University and Research Centre (NLD)
• Kabré Edit
• Vannière Henri

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/610091/)

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