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Farming
Quality Awards across SADC — agrifood value-chain opportunity — for regional operators
Most of what SADC's farms and food processors send across borders still leaves the region as raw commodity — maize, cotton lint, unprocessed horticulture — rather than as a certified, branded product carrying a premium for quality assurance. The gap between what...
The Importance of Accurate Valuation for Biological Assets in Farming
In the ever-evolving world of agribusiness, biological assets—such as livestock, crops, and other living organisms—play a pivotal role in the financial health of the business. Unlike traditional assets, biological assets are dynamic, growing and changing in value over...
SADC food-system resilience — farm-to-market implications for SADC firms and investors
A smallholder in one Southern African Development Community member state and a commercial farmer across the border from her are, in theory, operating inside the same regional agricultural policy architecture. Both fall under a Regional Crop Development Programme...
South Africa’s Maize Market: A Strategic Overview for Businesses in the Value Chain
The maize value chain in South Africa plays a pivotal role in food security, economic stability, and industrial production. From farmers and millers to traders and exporters, every participant contributes to maintaining a reliable supply of maize across local and...
SADC expanded tripartite market — agrifood value-chain opportunity and what comes next
A maize processor in Zambia or a horticultural exporter in Zimbabwe now sits, in legal terms, inside a market of 26 countries and roughly 700 million consumers. Whether that processor can actually clear a consignment of maize meal or fresh produce across a border into...
44th SADC Summit across SADC — agrifood value-chain opportunity for regional operators
Agro-processing was named twice in the same fortnight as a SADC industrialisation priority — once at the region's Industrialisation Week in late July, once at the 44th SADC Summit itself on 17 August 2024 in Harare. For a farmer or processor deciding whether to...
SADC seventh Industrialisation Week: farm-to-market implications — and what comes next
Agro-processing sits at the top of SADC's own list of industrialisation priorities, named alongside mineral beneficiation and pharmaceuticals as the seventh Industrialisation Week closes in Harare this week. The contradiction a Farming readership should notice is...
SADC Tripartite FTA entry — agrifood value-chain opportunity across member states
A finalised rules-of-origin framework sounds like a technical footnote until a maize processor tries to sell flour across a border and discovers that proving where the grain was grown is the actual obstacle. On 25 July 2024, the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade...