Southern Africa Policy Brief 1 - Restructuring food markets in the Southern African region: A synthesis of country findings

The policy brief series produced by the University of Pretoria forms part of the Regoverning Markets study in Southern Africa. They have endeavoured to analyse market concentration in the food processing and retail sectors, as well as to predict future dynamics in the sector which have emerged as a result of the restructuring of food markets and the rapid changes taking place in the structure and governance of local, national, and regional agri-food markets and the implications of these changes for small/medium producers of the restructuring of the food industry together with the implications for policies and programmess within the context of the agri-food market.

This publication forms part of the Regoverning Markets project.