Food inflation brief – March 2024 prices
April 24, 2024
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.
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Food inflation brief – February 2024 prices
March 28, 2024
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
February 26, 2024
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
March 4, 2023
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
June 28, 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
May 19, 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
Food inflation brief – January 2022
February 22, 2022
Year-on-year inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages accelerated to 5.7% in January, from 5.5% in December 2021. This was underpinned by an uptick in the price of cereals, bread, oils and fats, milk and eggs, and vegetables. Download here to read the full brief.
Food inflation brief – December 2021
January 24, 2022
Since our previous inflation brief in November 2021, the identification of the Omicron variant, combined with excessive rainfall in the summer rainfall areas, has presented the possibility of further supply disruptions that could affect global and local inflation. Food inflation figures for December 2021 came in at 5.9%, whilst food and non-alcoholic beverages were slightly more modest
Action to unlock the potential of the red meat industry
December 14, 2021
In light of the considerable opportunities and untapped potential of the red meat and livestock sector, the primary value chain industry organisations initiated a process of developing a South African Red Meat Industry Strategy 2030. BFAP has completed the first phase, aimed at unpacking the end-to-end interactions in the red meat value chain. Ground-level limiting
Food inflation brief – October 2021
November 18, 2021
This report gives an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes and the cost of basic healthy eating for October 2021. Inflation on food and non-alcoholic beverages for October 2021 was 6.1%, showing a slight moderation from September levels. Among food categories, oils / fats (+20.9% year-on-year), meat (+9.1%) and vegetables (+7.2%) exhibited the