Southern Africa Policy Brief 4 -The role of Fresh Produce Markets in South Africa

This policy brief forms part of the Recovering Markets study in Southern Africa. It has endeavored to analyse market concentration~in the food processing and retail sectors, as well as to predict future dynamics in the sectors which have emerged as a result~of the restructuring of the food market and the rapid changes taking place in the structure and governance of local, national~and regional agri-food markets and the implications of the changes for small/medium producers in the restructuring of the~food industry, together with the implications for policies and programmes within the context of the agri-food market.