3. Supply Chain Analysis
fresh tubers and diversify a supply chain to which African consumers are very attached. Ivory Coast and Cameroon, with their large urban markets, could be favored zones for such dissemination.
3.6. The Groundnut and Cowpea Supply Chains 3.6.1. Groundnut Production Lagging Groundnut is grown everywhere except southern Ghana. Two main production areas can be identified: (1) the Senegalese peanut basin; and (2) northern Nigeria and northern Cameroon, where this crop is of equal importance. Unlike the other staple food crops, oilseed production has lagged far behind changes in world production. It increased by a factor of 2.4 between 1982 and 2007, slightly more than the doubling of the population during the same period. Yet, a large share of these crops are destined for export. Groundnut production currently accounts for 25% of the area’s oilseed production after a substantial decline during the 1980s and 1990s. Despite difficulties in several groundnut supply chains, notably in Senegal, production has increased by a factor of 2.5 in the space of twenty years.
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20 Groundnut Production Areas in West Africa (2003-2007 Period)
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