Trade & Industry and agriculture – BFAP

Agricultural Trade Brief 2023 Q4

Hester Vermeulen — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:05:59 +0000

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 as disruptions at various ports, changing regulatory environment and animal diseases are covered.

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Agricultural Trade Brief 2023 Q3

Kandas_BFAP — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0000

BFAP’s Agricultural Trade Brief interprets and contextualises the latest quarterly international trade data and provides insights on the major factors driving agricultural trade.

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Bucking the trend of Africa’s Food Trade Deficit

Dalene — Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:00:37 +0000

Extract from Panel discussion at IFAMA 2017, Miami Florida

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Measuring the competitive performance of the South African stone fruit industry

Dalene — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:19:48 +0000

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 component analyses and Cronbach’s alpha, to reflect differences in stakeholder opinions and views within the value chain. South African
stone fruit was found to perform consistently at high, but fluctuating competitive levels in highly contested global markets (RTA values of between 0.41 and 5.61 since 1961); particularly since the economic deregulation of the industry in the mid 1990’s. A strategic planning framework was drafted with participation from key industry role-players, identifying eleven industry level strategic focus areas. These included improved strategic communication within the value chain and improved industry intelligence systems.

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Price Formation and Competitiveness of the South African Broiler Industry in the Global Context

Dalene — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:55:51 +0000

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 globally. Price formation within broiler production contracts in South Africa utilizes the same tournament pricing used successfully in the USA, resulting in high levels of technical efficiency, however economic efficiency is lacking. Univariate time series analysis confirmed that the domestic price of chicken is more elastic to changes in the import parity price than changes in feed costs. Feed remains crucial to economic efficiency and while declining protein meal prices in the future is plausible given recent investment into the industry, marketing strategies that optimize the returns from an entire carcass could aid effective competition with imported products.

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Agri Leaders

Dalene — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 12:47:21 +0000

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 Europe will become increasingly reliant on a shrinking proportion of young workers.

And three out of four people will live in cities, a massive demographic shift that will force governments to create more efficient and affordable solutions for the delivery of clean water, sanitation and other essential services.

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