Future of the African food industry
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Publisher | Milling & Grain |
Year of publication | 2018 December |
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Medium | Digital |
Edition | 1 |
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Scope & content | By Matt Holmes, Features editor, Milling & Grain De Wet Boshoff, of the Animal Feed Manufacturers’ Association, South Africa, spoke of the opportunities and challenges facing the African continent at the World Nutrition Forum in Cape Town. Mr Boshoff said South Africa is in an anomalous position – producing feed on a developed world standard while being ion a developing economy. The European Partnership Agreement, signed by the EU and the SADC, made free trade a reality. South Africa needs to face the challenges head on. “The region should get itself well organised in many ways to stand their ground, which would be possible if the cooperation between industries and governments can be brought to a level where they work as a team for their country and their region, moving away from the phenomena of everyone working in their own little silo, with no strategic lateral vision, which is starting to show, but at a too sluggish pace”...Read more. |