European milk powder is flooding Africa: disaster for the breeders?
(Replay)
Herd of cows in Benin.
© RFI / Delphine Bousquet
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
1 min
With containment in Europe, European powdered milk found itself in overproduction and is invading West African markets more than ever.
In Senegal, imported powdered milk is 30% cheaper than that of farmers.
Competition often considered unfair.
What solutions to help African breeders?
Publicity
With:
- Claire Fages
, journalist at RFI's Economics Department, presenter of
La Chronique des Matières naturelles
- 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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