Since the beginning of 2000s, in order to let poor
people accede to meat consumption, several developing
countries have opened their domestic chicken market to
foreign imports, by reducing import tariffs. Thus local chicken
meat competes with frozen pieces of chicken imported from
the European Union or America, causing the loss of many jobs
in the local chicken food chain. In order to highlight the
determinants of urban consumer’s choice relative to chicken
types, and assess the opportunity for local chicken to restore its
market share, investigations have been done in 2005 and 2006,
in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and at Port-au-Prince (Haiti) applied
to 180 urban households in each country. While imported
frozen pieces of chicken have almost entirely substituted for
the local chicken which has already quite disappeared in Portau-Prince,
Yaoundé consumers still prefer the local flesh
chicken to the imported ones, at least for particular uses