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Food inflation brief – July 2024 prices

This brief provides an overview of food prices, food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for July 2024. Download here to read the report.

Food inflation brief – June 2024 prices

This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for June 2024. Download here to read the report.

Food inflation brief – May 2024 prices

This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for May 2024. Download here to read the report.

Food inflation brief – April 2024 prices

This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for April 2024. Download here to read the report.

Food inflation brief – March 2024 prices

This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for March 2024. Download here to read the report.

Food inflation brief – February 2024 prices

This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for February 2024. This version of the Food Inflation Brief also incorporates the potential impact of the latest crop estimates on basic staple food prices in South Africa. Download here to read the report.

Food inflation brief – January 2024 prices

This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for January 2024. Download here to read the report.

South African adoption rate of GM maize

In this report, BFAP assesses the adoption trends of GM maize seed in South Africa. The main objective of this ongoing Maize Trust supported initiative is to estimate the most recent maize production season’s GM maize planting areas and GM trait adoption trends, as seed sales figures become available, in order to expand the historic database on

Food Inflation Brief – May 2022

Year-on-year inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages gained momentum, with a 7.6% increase in May compared to 6.0% in April 2022. Food inflation was mainly driven by price increases in plant oil products, meat and grain-based foods.   Download here to read the full brief. 

Food Inflation Brief – April 2022

Year-on-year inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages eased slightly, with a 6.0% increase in April compared to 6.2% in March 2022. This was underpinned by an uptick in the price of vegetables oils and meat, with inflation on bread and cereals also gaining momentum.   Download here to read the full brief or listen to the

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