Agricultural Trade Brief 2025 Q3
Agricultural Trade Brief 2025 Q3 This publication provides a quarterly synopsis of trade-related matters in the South African agricultural sector Download here to read the report.
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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
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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Agricultural Trade Brief 2025 Q2
This publication provides a quarterly synopsis of trade-related matters in the South African agricultural sector Download here to read the report.
Agricultural Trade Brief 2024 Q4
BFAP’s Agricultural Trade Brief interprets and contextualises the latest quarterly international trade data and provides insights on the major factors driving agricultural trade.
‘Agriculture in South Africa in the Democratic Era, 1994-2024’
We are pleased to announce the publication of ‘Agriculture in South Africa in the Democratic Era, 1994-2024’.
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BFAP Assessment on the Possible Impacts of EU Green Deal Polices on SA Agriculture
In November 2024, CropLife SA and Africa Middle East hosted an information session to explore how South African agriculture can remain relevant in a world of changing trading standards. BFAP conducted an impact assessment about the possible impacts of the EU Green Deal’s Farm to Fork policies on South African agriculture.
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Perspectives on Agriculture’s GDP performance in Q3 2024
Perspectives on Agriculture’s GDP performance in Q3 2024
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Agricultural Trade Brief 2024 Q3
BFAP’s Agricultural Trade Brief interprets and contextualises the latest quarterly international trade data and provides insights on the major factors driving agricultural trade.
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%
Agricultural Trade Brief 2023 Q4
BFAP’s Agricultural Trade Brief interprets and contextualises the latest quarterly international trade data and provides insights on the major factors driving agricultural trade. This quarterly brief provides the trends and patterns of fourth-quarter South African agriculture trade for various commodities with several partners worldwide. Some factors that may have influenced trade in the quarter such
Perspectives on Agriculture’s GDP performance in Q4 2023
The release of the country’s GDP results for the final quarter of 2023 brought several surprises, which we unpack in this Brief. For the total economy, GDP increased by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2023. For the full year 2023, GDP expanded by 0.6% in real terms. The big surprise, however, was that agriculture
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