Food inflation brief – March 2024 prices
April 24, 2024
This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for March 2024. Download here to read the report.
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Food inflation brief – February 2024 prices
March 28, 2024
This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for February 2024. This version of the Food Inflation Brief also incorporates the potential impact of the latest crop estimates on basic staple food prices in South Africa. Download here to read the report.
Food inflation brief – January 2024 prices
February 26, 2024
This brief provides an overview of food inflation dynamics, its associated causes, and the cost of basic healthy eating for January 2024. Download here to read the report.
Food Inflation Brief – December 2022
January 27, 2023
Month-on-month inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages has been losing momentum from October 2022 (+0.9%) to December 2022 (+0.4%). Food inflation was mainly driven by price increases in grain-based foods and vegetable oil products, followed by animal-source foods. Download here to read the full brief.
Integrated monitoring evaluation – December 2022
November 28, 2022
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) should not be seen as something that is done at the end of an initiative or programme to report on historic performance but rather a tool to provide real time information and insights that enable efficient and effective decision making to drive future sustainability and impact. In this brief, BFAP introduces
Chicken or beef: evaluating factors driving meat price inflation in South Africa
October 31, 2022
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. Download here to read the full brief.
Food Inflation Brief – September 2022
October 20, 2022
Year-on-year inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages gained significant further momentum in September 2022, with a 0.5% increase from August 2022. As in previous months, food inflation was mainly driven by price increases in grain-based foods followed by meat. Download here to read the full brief.
Food Inflation Brief – March 2022
April 22, 2022
Year-on-year inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages eased slightly, with a 6.2% increase in March compared to 6.4% in February 2022. This was underpinned by an uptick in the price of bread and cereals, meat, fish, dairy and eggs as well as oils and fats. Download here to read the full brief.
Food Inflation Brief – February 2022
March 29, 2022
Year-on-year inflation on Food and Non-alcoholic beverages accelerated even further, with a 6.4% increase in February compared to 5.7% in January 2022. This was underpinned by an uptick in the price of oils and fats, meat, vegetables and fish. Download here to read the full brief.
Action to unlock the potential of the red meat industry
December 14, 2021
In light of the considerable opportunities and untapped potential of the red meat and livestock sector, the primary value chain industry organisations initiated a process of developing a South African Red Meat Industry Strategy 2030. BFAP has completed the first phase, aimed at unpacking the end-to-end interactions in the red meat value chain. Ground-level limiting