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Dury, Sandrine; Meuriot, Veronique; Fliedel, Genevieve; Blancher, Sandy; Guindo, Fanta Bore; Drame, Djibril; Bricas, Nicolas; Diakite, Lamissa; Cruz, Jean-Francois. |
African consumers' expectations concerning quality of food products are great. In spite of constrained budgets, we showed that market retailed prices revealed quality preferences of the consumers and not only production costs. In very poor countries like Mali, food innovation is limited by the very low purchasing power of the population. However, technological food product or process innovations are possible and sometimes valuable. Demand driven innovation may lead to open new markets, opportunities for small and medium scale enterprises and to improve consumers' welfare. Based on this assumption, technical research was done to provide new food products. In this paper, using both sensory test and a hedonic price approach, we estimated consumer demand for... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Demand and Price Analysis. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7949 |
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