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The Challenges to agri-food trade in Southern Africa

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Studies in Agricultural Economics2025https://doi.org/10.7896/j.3198article
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Deepening and expanding agricultural trade patterns require institutional and infrastructural investments that have to compete with other country and regional priorities such as expenditure on poverty alleviation and adaptation to, and mitigation of, the effects of climate change.As a result, arguments for expenditure on trade facilitation and on trade infrastructure need to be evidence-based.In this article we provide an overview of the wide range of challenges facing the Southern African region, then present two case studies that illustrate the benefits of investment in trade infrastructure.A reduction of 25% in the cost of regional trade in maize benefits producers and consumers, while reducing the cost of exporting citrus from South Africa leads to a 4.1% annual gain in revenue to producers.

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@article{unknown2025,
  title        = {{The Challenges to agri-food trade in Southern Africa}},
  author       = {Unknown author},
  journal      = {Studies in Agricultural Economics},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7896/j.3198},
}

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