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Herbicide use in Africa – towards sustainable intensification: Use of glyphosate in Kenya

Kenya’s agriculture is at the forefront of addressing food security, climate resilience, and rural livelihoods. This BFAP–Tegemeo report examines the role of glyphosate herbicides in Kenya’s maize, wheat, and rice production, highlighting their importance for conservation agriculture, no-till farming, and sustainable intensification. Glyphosate enables farmers to reduce soil erosion, improve soil health, and cut greenhouse […]

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Trajectories of South Africa’s Red Meat Industry

This BFAP report assesses the sector’s performance, highlighting key challenges such as high production costs, limited domestic demand and biosecurity risks like Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). These issues impact profitability throughout the value chain. The report presents the baseline and improved disease control scenarios, quantifying potential exports and Gross Production Value, and recommends interventions

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Global fertiliser trends: Implications for South Africa’s oilseeds industry

Popular article citation: Ottermann, Helga; Truter, Karen; Haarhoff, Stephano; Van der Westhuizen, Divan, Meyer, Ferdi & Swanepoel, Pieter. 2025. Global fertiliser trends: Implications for South Africa’s oilseeds industry. Oilseeds Focus, September 2025, pages 43-45. In this popular article a team of researchers from BFAP and Stellenbosch University unpack the global fertiliser trade and trends, as well

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DIFM-project: Lessons from on-farm variable soya bean seeding rate trials

Popular article citation: Truter, Karen; Delport, Marion; Glas, Henja & Ottomann Helga. 2025. DIFM-project: Lessons from on-farm variable soya bean seeding rate trials. Oilseeds Focus, September 2025, pages 21-25. This recently published popular article presents an analysis of data from data-intensive farm management (DIFM) trials across three multi-season soya bean case studies, to determine whether

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What is Agri Plus

Introducing Agri Plus: Shaping the Future of Agriculture in South Africa Facilitated by the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP), Agri Plus aims to consolidate and communicate multiple perspectives on South Africa’s agricultural sector. By bringing together collaborators across the agricultural landscape. Agriculture in South Africa goes far beyond farming. Contributing more than 14%

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Production Potential for Soybeans and Maize in the Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape was mentioned in the National Development Plan as a region “with untapped potential” however, there are a number of factors that limit this potential. These include physical characteristics (soil depth and quality (pH, soil nutrients), topology and degradation) as well as land use/competition dynamics. It was found, based on the area and

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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

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Soybean yield loss calculator 2022

BFAP was appointed by the Oilseeds Advisory Committee (OAC) to repeat the soybean calculator app roll out first developed in 2021. The team visited a dedicated study group of farmers who collaborated in measuring Soybean Yield losses during the 2022 harvesting season, with special focus on higher moisture content harvesting. Download the report summarising outcomes here

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Chicken or beef: evaluating factors driving meat price inflation in South Africa

Meat price increases were repeatedly highlighted in the domestic food inflation statistics in 2022. In this brief, Dr. Tracy Davids explores the direct and indirect drivers of this phenomenon and the prospects for normalisation in future. Download here to read the full brief.

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Food Inflation Brief – September 2022

Year-on-year inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages gained significant further momentum in September 2022, with a 0.5% increase from August 2022. As in previous months, food inflation was mainly driven by price increases in grain-based foods followed by meat. Download here to read the full brief.

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Maize Trade Policies in Zambia: Options for Growth

The Government of the Republic of Zambia has committed to transforming the economy to support economic growth and facilitate job creation. Central to the transformation agenda is a commitment to open trade regime for agricultural exports and imports. This collaboration between researchers from the World Bank, BFAP and IAPRI demonstrates and quantifies Zambia’s potential gains from

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Modelling poultry markets in Eastern and Southern Africa

In per capita terms, poultry consumption in Sub Saharan Africa remains low. Expectations are that poultry will be at the forefront as income grows to enable greater dietary diversity. To understand the possible extent of growth, as well as the possibilities to expand domestic production to supply it, this report considers demand preferences for poultry

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