by Wandile Sihlobo | Jun 27, 2022 | Food Security
We are in a period of elevated prices, and food is at the core of these increases. For example, in May 2022, South Africa’s consumer food price inflation accelerated to 7,8% y/y, from 6,3% in the previous month. This is the quickest pace since March 2017.
by Wandile Sihlobo | May 26, 2022 | Food Security
Since the Russia-Ukraine war began four months ago, food security has dominated global media headlines. While prices of food products are rising globally, not all countries are negatively affected the same way.
by Wandile Sihlobo | May 21, 2022 | Food Security
The data released by Statistics South Africa this past week showed that the country’s consumer food price inflation decelerated to 6,3% y/y in April 2022 from 6,6% y/y in the previous month. This is on the back of relatively softer price increases in meat; milk, eggs and cheese; and vegetables.
by Wandile Sihlobo | Apr 22, 2022 | Food Security
The recently released data by Statistics South Africa showed that the country’s consumer food price inflation moderated to 6,6% y/y in March 2022 from 6,7% y/y in the previous month.
by Wandile Sihlobo | Mar 30, 2022 | Food Security
We now expect South Africa’s consumer food price inflation to increase modestly from readings in recent months and possibly average 6,0% y/y in 2022.
by Wandile Sihlobo | Jan 17, 2022 | Food Security
A recent survey done by Grain South Africa show that farmers in the Free State, Mpumalanga, North West, Limpopo, and KwaZulu-Natal ranked excessive rains as their biggest risk to crops this year.
by Wandile Sihlobo | Dec 21, 2021 | Food Security
Food prices often dominate the headlines in South Africa this year. On several occasions this year, some people questioned the rise in South Africa’s consumer food price inflation in a year of abundant agricultural harvest.
by Wandile Sihlobo | Nov 28, 2021 | Food Security
In a year of large crop harvests following good rainfall, a few people probably thought consumer food price inflation would accelerate as we have witnessed in the past ten months, averaging 6,6% y/y (compared with 4,5% y/y in 2020).