European milk powder is flooding Africa: disaster for the breeders?
Herd of cows in Benin RFI / Delphine Bousquet
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
With containment in Europe, European milk powder has found itself in overproduction and is invading West African markets more than ever.
In Senegal, imported powdered milk is 30% cheaper than that for breeders.
Competition often considered unfair.
What solutions to help African breeders?
Publicity
With:
Claire Fages
, journalist in the economics department of RFI, presenter of
La Chronique des Matières Libres
Bio Goura Soulé
, agroeconomist, technical assistant on livestock, transhumance and pastoralism issues on behalf of
ECOWAS
Hindatou Amadou
, advocacy and gender manager at APESS (association for the promotion of Livestock in the Sahel and Savannah) and coordinator of the "
My milk is local"
campaign
Bagoré BATHILY
, co-founder of
La laiterie du Berger
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