Online camel milk trade: new players, new markets (Update)*

Commerce en ligne du lait de chamelle: nouveaux acteurs, nouveaux marchés (Actualisation)
Comercio en línea de leche de camella: nuevos actores, nuevos mercados (Actualización)
Konuspayeva G. Faye B. Duteurtre G.
2022 CIRAD

Revue dElevage et de Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux(France)
2022 #75 Issue 4 137 - 144 pp.

The rapid growth of the dromedary and Bactrian camel population worldwide aims in part at satisfying a growing demand for camel milk. We analyze these changes by studying the recent arrival of online trade of camel milk products. This study highlights the emergence of actors involved in the intensive production of camel milk, but also in the trade of milk powder, fermented milk and cheese. These new camel milk entrepreneurs are located for the most part in countries without camel farms, notably in Europe, the United States, Canada and several emerging countries. The prices of milk sold over the Internet are extremely variable, highlighting a market that is under construction. The emergence of this trade reflects a dualistic innovation process. This entrepreneurial dairy economy based on exchanges between intensive livestock farms and distant consumers sharply contrasts with a local dairy economy based on periurban trade in fresh milk, which is strongly correlated with pastoral systems. We conclude with research and development recommendations to make the online trade of camel milk more inclusive.

Camel milk , consumption , electronic commerce , exports , international trade

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Al-Farabi National Kazakh University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Kazakh Research Institute of Livestock and Fodder Production, 51 Zhandosov str., Almaty, 050035, Kazakhstan
CIRAD, UMR SELMET, Montpellier, F-34398, France
SELMET, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France

Al-Farabi National Kazakh University
Kazakh Research Institute of Livestock and Fodder Production
CIRAD
SELMET

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