Knowledge base

Extensive research by CCRED on regional value chains and food markets has created a strong knowledge base in areas such as fertilizer, poultry and transport. It also pointed to an important knowledge gap and urgent imperative to develop a platform for food systems transformation based on detailed insight, thereby laying the foundations for the African Market Observatory.

• Roberts (2023). Competition, trade, and sustainability in agriculture and food markets in Africa, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 39(1), Spring 2023, 147–161.

• Kaziboni, L. and Roberts, S. (2022). Industrial Policy for a Just Transition to a Green Economy: The Importance of Regional Food Value Chains in Southern Africa. SARChI Industrial Development Working Paper Series WP 2022-01. SARChI Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg.

• Bell, J., Fleming, J., Roberts, S. and Vilakazi, T. (2020). Maize and Soybeans Markets in the Southern and East African Regions: The Case for a Regional Market Observatory. CCRED Working Paper 2020/2.

• Vilakazi. T. (2018). The causes of high intra-regional road freight rates for food and commodities in Southern Africa. Development Southern Africa, 35(3): 388-403.

• Ncube, P., Roberts, S., Zengeni, T. and Samboko, P.C. (2017). Identifying growth opportunities in the Southern African Development Community through regional value chains: The case of the animal feed to poultry value chain. WIDER Working Paper 2017/4.

• Ncube, P., Roberts, S. and Zengeni, T. (2017). The Southern African poultry value chain: Regional development versus national imperatives. WIDER Working Paper 2017/97.

• Vilakazi, T. and Paelo, A. (2017). Understanding intra-regional transport: Competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. WIDER Working Paper 2017/46.

• Ncube, P., Roberts, S. and Vilakazi, T. (2016). Regulation and rivalry in transport and supply in the fertilizer industry in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia” in S. Roberts Competition in Africa: Insights from Key Industries. HSRC Press: Cape Town.