Food Consumption Patterns Part 2

Contents
9. The Entrance of Imported Snack Food ..................................................................................... 70
Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 70
Entrance of Snack Foods .......................................................................................................... 71
Cost and the Entrance of Prepackaged Fake Nutritious Foods ................................................. 74
Government vs. Merchant Elite: Who Controls of the Market ................................................ 81
Government Regulations, Standards and Quality Control .................................................... 81
Elite, Imports, Corruption, Political Instability and the Stacked Deck ................................. 82
10. Peanuts and Peanut Butter ...................................................................................................... 84
The Peanut Value Chain ........................................................................................................... 84
Peanut Production ................................................................................................................. 84
The Market ............................................................................................................................ 85
Problems and Inefficiencies in the Production and Market Chain ....................................... 88
Consumers Opinions, Preferences and Tastes .............................................................................. 89
Health and Who Consumes Peanuts ..................................................................................... 89
Peanut Base Foods ................................................................................................................ 91
Peanut Butter ......................................................................................................................... 91
Expenditures on Peanut Butter.............................................................................................. 92
Market Potential and Analysis for Peanut Based RUTFs ......................................................... 94
Distributors Profit Margins ....................................................................................................... 95
Competing Processed Snack Foods .......................................................................................... 95
Probability of Sales ............................................................................................................... 96
Market Size ............................................................................................................................... 97
Caveats and additional information ...................................................................................... 97
Distributors and Credit .............................................................................................................. 99
Government, Import Duties, Sales Taxes and Licenses ........................................................... 99
Labeling, Size and Packaging ................................................................................................... 99
11. Conclusion and Recommendations ....................................................................................... 100
Getting past the Elite Merchants ............................................................................................. 100
Publicity .................................................................................................................................. 100
Getting to the Market .............................................................................................................. 101
Plugging into the ‘Dueling Economies’ .............................................................................. 102
ANNEXES .................................................................................................................................. 104
Annex 1: Contacts ................................................................................................................... 105
Table A1-3: Redistributors ......................................................................................................... 105
Annex 2: Proposal ................................................................................................................... 110
Annex 3: Most Nutritional Foods Free-lists ........................................................................... 113
ANNEX 4: Cultural Consensus Plot of Food Item Proximity ............................................... 125
Annex 5: Alternative and Secondary Meals and Food Rules ................................................. 126
Main Meal Alternatives: Soups and Stews ........................................................................ 126