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.
Trade & Industry and agriculture
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.
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.
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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Price Formation and Competitiveness of the South African Broiler Industry in the Global Context
Davids T, Meyer F.H In light of its recent classification by the Department of Trade and Industry as an industry in distress, this paper undertakes a comprehensive evaluation of the competitiveness of South African broiler production in the global context. A qualitative review of industry structure revealed a great deal of similarity to market leaders
Agri Leaders
THE PEOPLE THAT MAKE AGRI INVESTMENT HAPPEN Humanity faces some tough challenges in the 21st century. By 2050, we’ll reach ‘peak population’ with more than 9 billion people. That’s a quarter more mouths to feed with ever scarcer resources. We’ll be much older on average, which means that ageing nations in the Americas, Asia and