Investment & risk – BFAP

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

Jaco — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:43:16 +0000

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.

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Maize Trade Policies in Zambia: Options for Growth

Jaco — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:58:44 +0000

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 a full commitment to open trade over the coming decade in the event that yield volatility is similar to that experienced over the past decade. The current uncertainty facing global food markets could further increase the cost of such domestic policy distortions, whereas commitment to free trade has immense potential to accelerate growth in the sector.

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Competitiveness of the South African Broiler Industry

Dalene — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:25:17 +0000

This report benchmarks the efficiency of South-African broiler producers. It considers terms of technical efficiency and production cost in SA relative to other leading producers globally. Read more here.

Competitiveness of Local Grain and Oilseeds Industries on the Global Market

Dalene — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:39:50 +0000

DR DIRK STRYDOM, DIVAN VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

Globalisation is becoming more of a reality, not only in the industrial sector, but also closer to home in the agricultural industry. It can be seen in the consolidation of input suppliers and the effect of international prices on local ones.

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Competitiveness of South African Broiler Production

Dalene — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:25:53 +0000

The industry is central to food security, as it provides the most affordable source of animal protein to South African consumers. Since 2010, however, more than half of the growth in chicken consumption has been supplied through imported products. From 2010 to 2015, imports increased by more than 90% from 240 000 to 457 000 tons, raising concerns related to the industry’s ability to compete in the global context – and consequently its long-term sustainability. In collaboration with the Landbouw Economisch Instituut (LEI), a research institute at Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in the Netherlands, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) conducted
a benchmarking analysis of both technical and economic efficiency. South African producers achieve high levels of technical efficiency, reflected in production efficiency factors that are comparable to top broiler-producing countries such as Brazil and the United States (US) (Davids, 2013; Lovell, 2012; Louw, Schoeman & Geyser, 2011).

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Evaluating the competitiveness of the South African Broiler Industry value chain

Dalene — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:26:48 +0000

A collaborative report by the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy and the National Agricultural Marketing Council.

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