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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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.
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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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.
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
Agricultural Trade Brief 2023 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. Click here to read more.
Perspectives on Agriculture’s GDP performance in Q3 2022
South Africa’s agricultural GDP rose by 22.3% year on year in the third quarter of 2022 – a correction from the sharp decline in Q2 due to the delayed maize harvest. This publication contextualises the latest release of GDP statistics by StatsSA and provides insights on the major factors driving agriculture’s contribution to GDP. Find the brief
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Bucking the trend of Africa’s Food Trade Deficit
Extract from Panel discussion at IFAMA 2017, Miami Florida Download here to read the extract.
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Measuring the competitive performance of the South African stone fruit industry
The aim of the study is to enquire about the global competitive performance of the South African stone fruit industry for the period 1961 – 2012. A five-step analytical framework was applied, using approaches by Balassa (revealed comparative advantage, RCA), Vollrath(relative trade advantage, RTA) and the Porter Diamond Model, together with statistical methods such as cluster analyses, principle
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