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COKE BETS BIG ON AFRICA GROWTH

JULY AUGUST 2016

OBASANJO: WE NEED TO MAKE FARMING GLAMOROUS

SMALL FISH ARE A FRESH OPPORTUNITY

YEAR OF THE PULSE

The paper bag has been re-invented

SA MILLS NON-GMO MAIZE TO MEET AFRICA‘SDEMAND ...

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COKE BETS BIG IN MOZ 4

PAPER BAG REVOLUTION 6

NON-GMO MAIZE:SA STARTS MILLING 8

SMALL FISH AREKEY OPPORTUNITY 11

YEAR OF THE PULSE 14

OBASANJO: LET’S MAKE FARMING GLAMOROUS 17

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BOTTLING

From Paris to Pot-gietersrus, from New York to Knuckey Lagoon – global shoppers in 2015 once again

put one brand more than any other into their shopping baskets.

Coca-Cola. Yep, Coke is still the bubbly king of

brands, holding on to the top spot in the latest annual Brand Footprint study released by UK-based market research firm Kantar Group recently.

Kantar’s Brand Footprint is the leading study of fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) in the world. Based on research from 63% of the global population, it takes into account 956 million households across 35 countries. The complete ranking analyses about 11 000 brands and 250 billion shopping decisions.

The ranking is based on a metric Kantar created called Consumer Reach Points (CRP), which measures how many households on the planet buy a brand – its penetration – and how often – its frequency – to determine global consumer purchasing behaviour.

Kantar awarded the Coca-Cola Company brand a score of 5.7 million CRP. Runner-up was Colgate with 3.9

million CRP, and in third place was seasonings czar, Maggi

– owned by Swiss multinational

Nestlé

– with 2.8 million.Other brands in the top ten include

Lifebuoy soap, owned by Unilever, at No. 4, followed by Nescafé instant-coffee, Pepsi and Lay’s, and dried foods mark Knorr.

Unilever’s Dove, which sells personal care products, was the fastest-growing

brand in the top ten, climbing three places on Kantar’s ranking to

reach No. 9. Procter & Gamble’s Tide detergent

finished off the top ten.In Kantar’s list of the

world’s ten most popular beverage brands, the Coca-Cola

Company featured heavily, with three of its titles in the top five. Its

flagship, Coke, took top spot, with Sprite at No 4 and Fanta at No. 5.

Predictably, global FMCG sales

were flat against a gloomy economic backdrop. The number of CRPs grew by 0.7% year-on-year, according to Kantar, but considering that the earth’s population grew by 2% in 2015, CRPs per capita actually declined.

This downward trend was driven by cautious consumers in the US, Latin American and Asia.

While emerging market revenue growth slowed down in the last year – from 12.4%, to 6.7% – it remained far more robust than developed markets, where sales rose by only 1.3%.

In fact emerging markets accounted for 82% of FMCG growth in 2015, according to Kantar. The strongest performers included China, India, Turkey and South Africa.

Coca-Cola Sabco has flagged its determination to grow the African market with the recent opening of

a $140-million bottling facility in Matola Gare, near Maputo, Mozambique.

Built over three years, the plant is the largest bottling line in Coca-Cola Sabco’s 7-country regional footprint. It employs 400 full-time employees with two bottling lines – one for glass bottles and one for PET plastic bottles.

The Matola Gare site combines operations from two other sites in Maputo – Distribudora and Machava – with the aim of increasing operational efficiencies.

At the offical opening Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi said Coca-Cola was one of the first global companies to invest in the country after independence.

“Its investment in job creation and the growth of skills in Mozambique is testament to the company’s commitment to assisting us grow the economy of the country. We would like to congratulate Coca-Cola on the opening of this technologically-advanced bottling plant,” Nyusi said at the inauguration of the plant.

Muhtar Kent, chairman and chief executive of the Coca-Cola Company, said the company had been investing in Africa for almost 90 years and was present in every African country. There were more than 70 000 employees across 145 bottling and canning facilities.

“We have continued to increase investment in our business in Africa with $17-billion committed across our system for investments in distribution,

infrastructure, manufacturing and marketing during this decade,” Kent said.

Coca-Cola Sabco Managing Director Simon Everest said at the launch: “We need to look ahead and understand the trends and forces that will shape our business in the future and be able to move swiftly to prepare for what's to come. The Matola Gare plant is an example of how we are getting ready for tomorrow, today.”

Coca-Cola Sabco is 80-percent owned by Gutsche Family Investments and its headquarters are in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

It has 18 plants in Africa, with operations in SA, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Tanzania, employing over 9 000 people.

Main picture: The new plant at Matola Gare. Inset: Coca-Cola Chairman and CEO Muhtar Kent (right) tours the new facility with Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi.

Coke puts up $140mMozambique plant

What’s red and white - and drunk all over?

MARKETING


Re-inventing the paper bag

Vertical form, fill and seal (VFFS) machines are popular because they produce a variety of food

packaging formats and styles efficiently. Traditionally, these systems have required paper packaging to use polymer film or fully coated paper. Now Bosch Packaging Technology and Swedish paper specialist, BillerudKorsnäs have introduced a dust-tight packaging solution for dry food products using a

mono-material paper that contains no additional polymer fractions.

“Apart from being all paper and therefore renewable, recyclable and biodegradable, our new Sealed Paper Packaging is also dust-tight and insect-proof,” says Marcus Velezmoro, Bosch Packaging Technology’s ZAP portfolio sales head. “This keeps food particles in and contamination out during transport and while on the shelf, resulting in a

cleaner environment and less waste for pasta, oats, flour, rice, sugar and muesli products.”

Adds Velezmoro: “The success of the product is based on the characteristics of the Axello®ZAP paper that was specially developed by BillerudKorsnäs for this application, as well as in the ZAP-Module, which applies a minimal amount of the sealing agent during the packaging process to enable

Nici Solomon reports on a world-first solution: paper bags that are insect-proof and dust-

tight without any added plastic. It could be a big win for Africa’s food packers.

heat sealing of the paper on the VFFS machine.” The Axello®ZAP paper is made of 100% primary fibre from

Scandinavian forests and is certified by the FDA and Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment as a food contact material. “Our pulp is a perfect mix of short and long fibres that together result in a strong and durable paper with good printability. In addition, the primary fibres ensure that the paper is pure – a necessary property for any paper that comes into direct contact with food,” says Ole Paulussen, sales director at BillerudKorsnäs. “The combination of the paper’s strength, flexibility and stiffness fit perfectly with Bosch’s technology.”

Bosch’s Velezmoro says the company’s PME ZAP-Module vertical form, fill and seal machine features a unique forming shoulder for gentle paper guidance; escorting cross-sealing jaws with semi-continuous mode for tight seams; a gusseting unit adapted for gentle processing; and an integrated dosing unit and check weigher with tendency regulation for high efficiency.

“We are positive that this solution for pillow, gusseted and block bottom bags (with gable or flat top closure) not only addresses today’s challenges for our customers but also gives them the possibility to enter completely new markets and areas of application using sustainable packaging,” he adds.

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Charles Muller, Executive Director of Packaging SA, responds to our questions about the potential recycling benefits, challenges and impacts of this new mono-material paper bag technology in the South African market.

What are the recycling benefits of mono-material paper technology in SA?

Mono-layer or single substrate materials are always easier to recycle as there is no need to separate out the different raw materials. Multi-layer materials, including plastics, are often a nightmare to recycle, particularly where substrates with very different properties are combined. From a Packaging SA perspective, would this technology pose any difficulties in the paper recycling stream for collectors/converters in SA?

It's not clear what the sealing agent layer is made from, but it would appear from the article that there would be no issues with such packages entering the conventional paper recycling stream. This assumes of course that the product packaged has not seriously contaminated the actual paper. Would any new recycling/manufacturing infrastructure or resources need to be put in place to accommodate this material in the SA recycling stream?

I don’t think anything specific is required. But as always you would need to convince the brand-owners that such packaging meets their specific transport, storage, merchandising and safety requirements.

I guess it is also always beneficial to print something onto the package itself like “this package is fully recyclable”.

NEW PAPER BAG TECH GETS THE THUMBS

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INNOVATION

BREAKINGNEWGROUNDWITH ANOLD FRIEND

SA’s neighbours are insisting on non-GMO maize. Finally, one company has stepped up to the challenge

The term “paradigm shift” must be one of the most overused in the language of business. Yet few

know where it comes from. The term was coined by American physicist Thomas Kuhn, who argued that scientists within a particular discipline spend more time trying to fix the problems of that discipline than questioning its central ideas. That’s why, Kuhn argued, major breakthroughs in science are usually made by outsiders.

South African maize production could be on the brink of its own paradigm shift, and Kuhn, who died in 1996, would have been unsurprised to learn that a group of outsiders are leading that change. Next month (August), SA Rice Mills, an innovative milling company in Johannesburg, will commission SA’s first mill dedicated to processing non-GMO maize.

“There is growing uneasiness about GMO,” says Jo Galloway, SA Rice Mills’ chief operating officer. “While the debate about the pros and cons remains fierce, there is enough uncertainty surrounding it to stimulate a growing demand for non-GMO products.”

The GMO debate raises intense emotions on both sides: some believe it is evil incarnate; others maintain that human beings have been modifying crops for thousands of years and the fuss comes from paranoid new-Agers with nothing better to do than stand in the way of progress.

While the SA government has embraced GMOs and SA is thought to be the only country the world that allows its staple food to be genetically-modified, our neighbours have stringent anti-GMO policies - a reality South African maize and maize food producers can no longer ignore. In 2012, Africa overtook Europe to become SA’s biggest food export market and the GMO issue is proving to be a

spanner in the export works.Against this backdrop, Galloway

believes the logic behind setting up their dedicated non-GMO maize mill is rock-solid. The South African milling establishment, she says, has until now been reluctant to commit to producing non-GMO maize meals at competitive prices.

To mill non-GMO maize, conventional millers would need to stop their entire line, purge it, and clean it ferociously to prevent cross-contamination that would prevent them from labeling the product non-GMO. This cleaning, Galloway explains, can take up to a day and a half – which translates into two days of lost production and this has to be factored in to cost.

Then, if you factor in the premium that millers pay for non-GMO mealies, the numbers spiral out beyond the realm

of economic sense, especially when you consider how little of the maize farmed in South Africa is GMO-free. Only 15% of the maize grown in this country currently is non-GMO, according to Grain SA.

This is where SA Rice Mills has seen a gap. In its new maize mill it will be milling only GMO-free product so it will not incur the costs of halted production. This will be one of the ways the company will keep its costs down – which is crucial if the venture is be viable.

An effective extraction rate will also be vital to the pricing equation. “There are a lot of older maize mills in operation in South Africa,” says Galloway. “These are good machines but the technology limits their yields to about 68%. We will be using newer milling technology, and as a result we expect to get a far higher extraction rate.”

The third factor in the cost equation is

that SA Rice Mills has negotiated supply of its non-GMO maize at a fixed-rate premium.

The challenge of expanding their operations from rice to maize does not phase Galloway. She lists two reasons for her confidence. The first is the trust she has in SA Rice Mills’ MD David Brown, who has more than four decades of knowledge about milling.

The second is the relationship SA Rice Mills has with its Free State-based technology supplier, Roff Milling. “Roff is really a fantastic company,” Galloway says, “and we have every confidence in their products and in the training they will give us and our employees.”

For the dedicated non-GMO maize mill, the company will be using Roff Milling’s R70, a popular choice for small millers not only in South Africa but throughout the region. The R70 is

known for its ease-of-use and effective extraction rate.

SA Rice Mills is moving to new premises in Elandsfontein – 10 km from their current Kempton Park base. The new premises will have three times the space that they have in their current locale. The new maize mill will begin by milling 50 tons a day but with the option of expanding to a maximum capacity of 100 tons a day if the need arises.

“The move to milling GMO-free maize seemed a natural step for the company,” Galloway told me, since the company has had its finger on the pulse of the “free-from” food movement for years.

SA Rice Mills started out in 2007 selling rice and milling rice flour, but has since added a number of different

When SA Rice Mills made the decision to set-up SA’s first dedicated non-GMO maize mill, they turned to an old friend: Roff Industries, the Free State-based manufacturer they have trusted since the get-go.

“We installed Roff machines when we started out in 2007. And those same machines are still running,” says SA Rice Mills' MD Dave Brown. “So there was no question of going with anyone else.”

Founded in 1991, Roff has 25 years’ experience supplying machines to the local and regional markets. The R70 mill, which SA Rice Mills will use in its new Elandsfontein plant, is a popular choice: Roff has supplied more than 25 of them to millers across sub-Saharan Africa.

“The R70 is a compact mill developed for those looking to enter the maize meal market with a very cost-effective process,” says Koot Jordaan, sales manager at Roff.

It has a relatively small total footprint of 14m by 9m, which saves floor space, yet it has the capacity to mill 4 tons of maize per hour.

SA Rice Mills will start off milling half that but it has the option of making only a small addition to the mill to upgrade it to its maximum milling capacity, Jordaan says.

“There are three important things to keep in mind when assembling a mill,” Jordaan explains. “Price, ease of installation and ease of use. Our experience has told us that this is what clients are looking for – and this is what the R70 provides.”

Firstly, cost. Since Roff uses between 90% and 95% local materials (it imports spouting from JACOB in Germany), the company is able to keep its machines

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Above: The R70 maize mill from Roff Milling.

Left: Jo Galloway, SA Rice Mills chief operating officer.

INNOVATION

It's GO for SA's first dedicated GMO-free maize mill


products to its repertoire, including stone-milled rice flour, extruded rice flour and puffed rice.

“The demand for rice flour and rice-based products has grown markedly in the last few years,” says Galloway. “I see it as part of the gluten-free revolution. With more and more people becoming aware of their gluten intolerance, rice and rice flour products are becoming vital in the replacement of gluten-rich grains.

“The trend is definitely towards ‘free-from’. Whether it is free from gluten or free from GMOs. More and more of our clients are insisting that the rice products we supply are non-GMO. And everything indicates that this market will continue to grow.”

As it moves into maize, SA Rice Mills will also move into the retailing space. Its own brand of non-GMO products, Mill IT, will be hitting stores later this year. “We are currently in the final stages of packaging design," says Galloway. "And we are very excited about our three new branded products: Mill IT non-GMO white super maize meal and two rice products, Mill IT stone-milled brown rice flour and Mill IT stone-milled white rice flour.”

As with any bold new venture, success will depend on a number of unknown variables. Yet the intention is positive and the financial and practical case for the move seems strong. This could well prove to be the first step in a significant new movement in South African maize production. And we may look back one day and say that it took an outsider upstart to make the break that the industry – and the country – needed.

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affordable for local businesses.The second advantage is the quick

installation turnaround. The R70 is being manufactured and assembled at Roff’s Kroonstad factory and it will then be transported in modular increments to SARM’s new premises.

“Conventional mills can take up to three months to install,” says Jordaan. “But because we pre-assemble off-site, we only need to spend three weeks on site: two weeks assembling, and one week commissioning/testing. After three weeks the client can start pushing out maize meal.”

Ease-of-operation is the final piece in the R70 puzzle. In the South African market especially, where skilled millers are in short supply, an easy-to-operate, easy-to-maintain machine is desirable.

Since the R70 is installed over only two levels, all the critical points are readily accessible and the miller can view the various processes easily. And since the critical points are ventilated to prevent condensation and dust, the process is almost dust-free. Additionally, every roller box has its own sifter installed directly beneath it to ensure a simple-to-manage process.

The R70 comes standard with a surge bin for maize inlet, cleaning and conditioning equipment (including a conditioning bin), degermination, milling, sifting, conveyors, electrical panel, electrical cabling and all steel structures. SA Rice Mills will simply need to provide the building, water point and electrical supply to the panel.

“What is great about the R70 is that clients can run the mill themselves and get profitable extraction rates,” Jordaan says. “Simple operations translate into better extraction and hence better profits.”

The Roff team is proud to be involved with SA Rice Mills new venture, says Ruan van der Linde, sales consultant at Roff. “The non-GMO angle adds something novel and exciting, something Roff is really pleased to be a part of.”

Contacts:www.roff.co.zaTel + 27 (0)56 212 2697

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INNOVATION

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FAO study identifies small fish

with a big role to play feeding

Africa’s drylands

Small, fast growing wild fish could be crucial allies in the race to end hunger in some of the world's most

chronically poor and underfed regions, according to a new FAO report on fisheries in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa.

Water is an ephemeral resource in Africa's dryland regions, with water bodies forming and disappearing in a relatively short period of time. Despite this, fish - some of which weigh as little as a few grams at maturity - can survive and thrive in these environments, meaning the continent's dryland fisheries are in fact highly productive and resilient, the report says.

Output from dryland fisheries fluctuates due to climate trends - mainly low and above all uncertain rainfall -but productive potential is very high in smaller water bodies, some of which appear only once a decade but can produce up to 150 kilograms of fish per hectare per year. Together, these small water bodies cover a much larger area than the sub-Saharan region's lakes and reservoirs.

Properly managed, these bodies in southern Africa alone could produce 1.25 million tonnes of fish -- half the total recorded inland fisheries yield of the entire continent, the report found.

While the small-scale fisheries sector is often neglected by policy makers, and even dismissed for its inability to generate wealth, it can be very efficient as a buffer resource. When mixed with crop and livestock activities allows for resilient and diversified livelihoods in an unpredictable environment, say the authors of Fisheries in the Drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa.

The report also found higher fish consumption in dryland areas than reported in official figures, indicating an unexpectedly important role in local

food security, leading the researchers to explore management improvements for an inherently boom-and-bust resource.

Fish offer a nutritional punch, delivering the cheapest form of animal protein as well as amino acids, fats and micronutrients that are otherwise hard to obtain in the sub-Saharan drylands, where reported per capita fish consumption is much lower than the Africa-wide average of 10 kilograms per year.

How can you get fish in a dryland?"Fish are incredibly productive when

conditions are right," according to lead author Jeppe Kolding, a professor of biology at the University of Bergen in Norway. Their egg-laying capacities

made them "more like insects than other vertebrates," he said.

Half of sub-Saharan Africa consists of dryland areas, where surface water fluctuates widely and ecosystems are adapted to unpredictable precipitation.

Indeed, Lake Ngami in Botswana and Lake Liambezi in Namibia were both dry for more than two decades while today they are characterized by outstanding fish yields. And dryland fisheries - by definition highly variable - can produce up to four times the amount of fish as a large tropical lake or reservoir, according to the report.

Just how fish survive such daunting habitat changes - Sudan's Khasm

el-Girba reservoir is flushed dry every year but fish always rush back - is not fully understood. Clarias gariepinus - African catfish - can survive by burying themselves in mud, while other species evidently find refuge in small nearby streams, both strategies that, thanks to the roller-coaster demography allowed by fish fecundity, fit the common local claim that "fish come with the rains."

While fisheries cannot be a magic bullet for the 390 million people who live in Africa's dryland areas, they have a key role delivering Blue Growth, because they can be leveraged to provide multiple benefits.

The massive productive potential of dryland fisheries represents a critical

asset - dietary protein and economic option - in a region where food and nutritional needs are unlikely to be satisfied by agricultural development alone.

Exploiting it will require recognition of fisheries in dryland water management, food and nutrition policies. Further benefits could be had if adequate processing and storage facilities were introduced, as sun-dried fish caught in a boom year can last for years and could be tapped as a local supply for emergency food rations around the region.

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LAB REPORT

By DANIEL BROWDE

One of South Africa’s leading food testing laboratories – SAI Global in Jet Park, Johannesburg – just

got a whole lot bigger. The Australian-based standards compliance company marked the launch of its upgraded Jo'burg facility on June 8th with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and guided tour.

SAI Global – which bought SA testing firm QPRO International in 2012 – services customers of all sizes across the food, retail and agribusiness industries in more than 100 countries.

SAI Global's CEO, Peter Mullins flew out from the company's Sydney headquarters to attend the event. Mullins is South African-born, so his visit marked a homecoming of sorts. On his last visit a year ago, SAI Global’s South African GM, Nigel Alexander, motivated for an upgrade to the Jo'burg lab's capabilities.

“Nigel was really ‘campaigning’ for the expansion,” Mullins told his audience at the launch, which included representatives from some of the country’s major food organisations, including Nandos, Shoprite and Coca-Cola – all clients of SAI Global.

“So we sat down and looked at his business case, and decided to go ahead,” he said. “The old lab had reached its capacity, and with a growing number of customers in South Africa, expanding our facilities to meet current and future demand made good sense.”

Alexander accounts for the spike in local demand by pointing to three things: the Consumer Protection Act, amended – and toughened – last year; the ever-increasing power of social media to disseminate information, particularly bad news, quickly; and a generally heightened awareness of food safety in South Africa.

“Supply chains are increasingly complex webs and present risk for consumers,” he said. “Currently, supply-chain tracking is generally performed at the end-product level only, with all of the responsibility on the finished product producer to validate the quality of the product and its raw materials."

This exposes customers to significant risk,” he said, “since many product

producers are not skilled at tracking global supply chain risk. Therefore, they are exposing their customers to a number of known quality and contamination risks.

"Organisations need a clear food defence plan and strategies to address vulnerabilities and apply safeguards to protect against intentional and unintentional contamination," said Alexander, adding:

“We requested the additional investment to help our cust-omers meet their increasing obligations. We know our clients need to be able to streamline their food safety management protocols and minimise hazards for their customers.”

SAI Global has invested several million rand to upgrade the lab – among other things, doubling floor space by adding another 230m². It also incorporated additional equipment to expand the lab’s capability.

Chief technician Jane Mokete said the extra space meant the lab now had a more effective separation of incompatible areas, which enabled a more efficient workflow and improved the level of occupational health and safety. This, coupled with the new equipment, had increased the lab’s overall capacity to perform rigorous testing.

The focus of the upgraded laboratory

will be to provide clients with more comprehensive services – concentrating on food, environmental, and water and beverage microbiological testing.

The lab currently has 26 accredited methods and is one of only three facilities in South Africa delivering accredited testing for Legionella (Legionella spp), the bacteria that can cause Legionnaire’s disease among other serious respiratory ailments.

“The lab has a team of 16 specialists, all boasting extensive experience in the food industry both locally and internationally,” said Anne Scorey, SAI Global's Regional Director for EMEA.

SAI Global upgrades its lab capacity

Scorey traveled from the regional head office in Milton Keynes in the UK to be at the launch. “It’s our intention to continue to grow our team to meet the increasing South African demand,” she said.

The lab upgrade, Alexander promised, is just the beginning. “SAI Global has identified the importance of investing in new and different food capabilities and expertise within the South African market. The next step is to add new analysis methods and then to start to looking at chemical analysis, as our clients’ needs dictate.”

Contacts:JohannesburgTel:+27 (0)11 397 6249 Cape TownTel: +27 (0)21 850 [email protected]

The lab is now open ... Peter Mullins (left), SAI Global's CEO, with Nigel Alexander, SAI Global's SA General Manager.

EU & SADC six sign new free trade agreementOn 10 June 2016, the European Commission announced that the European Union and six countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the first of its kind between the EU and an African region pursuing economic integration. The signature took place in Kasane, Botswana.

The EPA is a development-oriented free trade agreement. In addition to this agreement, other regional agreements could also soon be signed with West Africa and the East African Community. The announcement said:

The EPA takes into account the different levels of development of each partner. It guarantees Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, and Swaziland duty-free, quota-free access to the European market. South Africa will also benefit from enhanced market access, going beyond the existing bilateral arrangement. Furthermore, the agreement increases the flexibility of Southern African producers to put together products from components from various countries, without the risk of losing their free access to the EU market. It also provides for a number of protective measures, for instance for nascent, fragile industries or for food security reasons.

The Southern African markets will open gradually and partially to EU exports, in an asymmetric way. In the process of diversifying their economies and broadening production, imports of certain goods are important for Southern African nations – certain industrial parts, seeds and machinery, for instance.

The import duties on many of these so-called intermediary goods will be significantly reduced, making the products more easily accessible to Southern African entrepreneurs.

For the South African market specifically, particular advantage has been granted to EU producers of traditional quality products with a worldwide reputation – for example wines and food products – that will now get the exclusive right to use their traditional names, or ‘geographical indications’, in South Africa. Correspondingly, several South African geographical indications will, from now on, be protected on the EU market, such as different types of South African wine such as Stellenbosch and Paarl, along with Rooibos tea and other products.

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On December 20, 2013, the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly

passed aresolution declaring 2016 the International Year of the Pulse. Pulses – which include dried beans, chickpeas and lentils – are a good source of protein and amino acids, and are a critical part of the food basket. They are important for food security, health and nutrition.

The resolution was adopted to reap the benefits pulses have on the environment, increasing soil fertility. Nutritionally, they also assist in maintaining a healthy weight, and prevent and manage chronic diseases.

Due to the increasing concerns for the environment, food security, health and nutrition, pulses are one of the best foods to feed the millions of people suffering from chronic hunger, micro-nutrient deficiencies and chronic diseases.

The majority of people suffering live in Africa. These concerns are set against a background of a continent that has the ability to produce its own rich diversity of nutritious plant foods and crops

like pulses that could play a far more significant role in solving malnutrition in Africa.

For example, indigenous cereals and pulses such as sorghum and cowpea which grow well where other crops fail, such as in arid and semi-arid areas, can be used.

Dry beans, dry broad beans, dry peas, chickpeas, dry cow peas, pigeon peas, lentils, bambara beans, vetches and lupins are all plant foods which belong to the family of legumes.

The term legume is used to refer to foods enclosed in a pod and pulses are only a subgroup of the legume family which is used in its dried seed form.

Besides being a good source of protein, pulses are good sources of fibre, calcium, iron and vitamins B, E and K.

Depending on their genetic make-up, pulses can grow in extreme climatic conditions where other foods are difficult to find.

Pulses make up most of the average diet in developing countries due to their low cost.

Even though the production and

consumption of pulses has declined, they form almost 4 percent of the major crops grown in the world.

In Africa, the term indigenous food crops does not refer only to food crops from the continent, they include crops that have been introduced and are recognised as naturalised or traditional crops.

An example of this are the pulses originally from Asia now considered to be indigenous to Africa.

The most commonly consumed pulses in South Africa are cowpeas and mung bean produced in Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West and KwaZulu-Natal.

Cowpea, a nutritional food, is mostly consumed by small-holding farmers in South Africa.

In South Africa, sorghum and cowpea have good potential. They produce higher yields than less resistant crops like maize and wheat. But they are produced in smaller quantities by subsistence farmers for home consumption.

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Foods indigenous to Africa are a good malnutrition solution, writes Nokuthula Vilakati


The image of African farming

as a route only to dead-end poverty must be challenged to stem the exodus of migrants to Europe, says former Nigerian Presidentt Olusegun Obasanjo.

"What does a young man want? He wants the 'bright lights'. And why can't he have those bright lights and be a farmer? We have to make farming attractive. We have to make it glamorous."

Speaking to the Thompson Reuters Foundation, Obasanjo, a two-time Nigerian leader, said giving land to young people and investing in a modern agricultural industry will lessen the lure of migration and help safeguard against radicalisation by militant groups such as Boko Haram.

Governments must change perceptions of farming as "condemnation

to poverty", and promote farming idols to rival celebrity rappers, said the 79-year-old, who helped smooth Nigeria's transition from military dictatorship to democracy.

"People see role models in rapping or singing or entertainment," he said. "And we have to make them also say: 'Yes, I can be a farmer, and I can have the 'glitz'."

Obasanjo, said by redistributing land, governments can provide an asset that allows young people to raise finance to invest in the tools required by modern agribusiness, including machinery, high-

yielding seeds and fertilizers.

Speaking on a recent trip to London, he said European leaders should question why young Africans would want to make the perilous journey

across the Mediterranean, and should help African governments offer alternatives at home.

"Trying to deal with migration in Europe is curing the symptom rather than curing the disease," he said in an interview.

"The disease is either the result the conflict in Africa or the result of poverty and unemployment for the youth."

Obasanjo said he has himself returned to farming, which he left as a young man to join the army, and later embark on a career in politics.

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The decrease in use of indigenous foods is mainly as a result of dietary changes due to nutrition transition.

One in four children in South Africa have also been found to be too short for their age – their growth is stunted. One in three people in the country are also faced with hunger due to food insecurity.

All these signs of faltering growth begin in early childhood. More so, a considerably larger proportion of South Africa’s population has been said to experience what is termed hidden hunger.

This kind of hunger is characterised by growing numbers of overweight, obesity and micro-nutrient malnutrition, which can easily be solved by providing a cheaper, yet good source of nutrition from plant foods like pulses.

The desire for convenience, driven by urbanisation and nutrition transition, has increased the consumption of highly processed, less nutritious foods.

The high processing and refining of foods unfortunately come at a higher cost to consumers.

The availability of convenient, Westernised diets has led to the neglect of healthier and less expensive locally available food options.

These Westernised diets offer high levels of energy and a low micro-nutrient content, leading to overweight, obesity and micro-nutrient malnutrition.

Foods indigenous to Africa, however, have the ability to provide adequate nutrition. Currently, the use of indigenous food is slowly diminishing. Indigenous foods are mainly used by small-holding farmers for their own consumption and produced in smaller quantities.

There is a need for greater creativity in identifying ways to assist government interventions for the malnutrition problem. Pulses like cowpea can be used as a cheaper source for nutrition.

The South African government is using interventions like the supplementation of vitamins, the fortification of processed flour and bread, and child-support grants to deal with malnutrition.

In a recent study we found that 40 percent of children

between the ages of two and five could get their required protein intake in a readymade meal, which included sorghum and cowpea. Proper marketing and reintroduction of

indigenous foods can help increase its use.The same mix can also provide essential amino acids like

lysine, which is typically missing in maize. Lysine is an essential amino acid because it cannot be synthesised by the body, but can be obtained only through diet.

It can also provide children aged two to five with the recommended iron and zinc.

Africa needs to make more use of indigenous foods in the Year of the Pulse. Indigenous foods are climate-resilient and have a low-carbon footprint.

* Vilakati has done postdoctoral research at the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being, University of Pretoria.

This article first appeared in The Conversation.

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) is planning to invest US$24bn to support agricultural transformation across the continent.

In a statement released by AfDB, the bank says it will also leverage additional investments through equity, quasi-equity, debt and risk instruments to catalyse investments into the sector.

It's Feed Africa strategy for agricultural transformation on the continent is estimated to have a total investment

of US$315-400bn over the next 10 years. Feed Africa wants to put the agricultural sector on an inclusive/competitive agribusiness model for the creation of wealth and to improve lives of citizens.

According to the statement, AfDB has approved the strategy, which aims to reverse the situation of a continent that spends US$35.4bn on food imports annually despite being home to 65% of the world’s undeveloped arable land.

According to the bank’s figures, around 70% of Africa’s population and 80% of its poor who live in rural areas depend on agriculture and non-farm rural enterprises for their livelihoods.

The strategy will focus on scaling up agriculture as a business through value addition, led by the private sector and enabled by the public sector, and using innovative financing mechanisms.

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Food and beverages are

an important economic

factor for Southern Africa.

food & drink technology

Africa, the trade fair for

processing, filling, packaging

and logistics, will present

the industry’s latest

developments on September

14 and 15 at Gallagher Estate

outside Johannesburg.

The food and beverage market in the entire Southern African region is experiencing continuous growth.

According to the Food Processing Machinery and Packaging Machinery Association in the VDMA (German Engineering Federation), growth in the overall beverage industry is expected to be as high as 13% during the next few years. In the case of non-alcoholic beverages, growth could be as high as 19%. Juices (growth rate 29%), bottled water (25%), concentrates (51%) and sport and energy drinks (35%) in particular are contributing to this development.

With a forecast growth rate of 6%, alcoholic beverages also contribute to these positive results (Source: Euromonitor International 6/2015, VDMA).

The craft-beer trend is becoming ever more popular in Southern Africa. Microbreweries brew their own types of beer and market them. The growing circle of fans for these beers is increasing pressure on leading manufacturers, which are now being forced to find new ways to keep their customers and, in doing so, contribute to growth in the beer industry in the region. South Africa’s wine industry is also growing and is on its way to becoming a global leader.

The constantly growing dairy industry and the sectors for yoghurt and milk-based drinks in particular, round out the results for Southern Africa and demonstrate that the beverage industry is on the right track.

In addition, increasing urbanization and a constantly growing middle class mean that the growth prognoses for the food sector is positive.

Consumer behavior is changing. Baked goods, crackers, snack bars and sweet and salty snacks are enjoying increased popularity. Market researchers expect double-digit increases in per-capita consumption for the next few years (Source: VDMA).

A significant increase in demand for convenience products and growing

health awareness indicate that the South African food market is in the midst of transition and that solutions must be found that meet consumers’ needs.

Despite the positive growth prognoses, the Southern African market has to tend with certain issues that need to be solved. However, these challenges should be seen as an opportunity. State-of-the-art technologies give the industry a chance to continue improving the market and form part of its positive development. For example, manufacturing food and beverages is particularly energy intensive. It also requires a great deal of water, both for the processes themselves and for cleaning the plants and machinery.

Water is becoming a scarce resource in Southern Africa. This water shortage, the ongoing issues with electricity and planned introduction of a carbon tax are resulting in cost increases that food and beverage manufacturers have a hard time passing on to consumers. These reasons are why the focus now is on investing in plant and machinery that require less water and energy.

The topic of packaging is also relevant for the industry. Increasingly busy lifestyles have consumers reaching for products that are innovative and easy to use and there is now an emphasis on the fact that packaging should be recyclable.

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food & drink technology Africa

A SHOWBY AFRICA, FOR AFRICA

Centre outside Johannesburg will showcase exhibitors who will have solutions on display for dealing with resources responsibly.

The trade fair will feature industry solutions that are tailor made to the needs of the Southern African market.

food & drink technology Africa is a trade fair “By Africa, for Africa” and focuses on innovations and new developments that can offer companies added value.

As a “seismograph” for the African food and beverage processing, packaging and logistic industry, food & drink technology Africa is well on its way to establishing itself as the leading industry platform for Southern Africa.

Leading manufacturers such as GEA Africa, Pentair Food & Beverage, Ecolab, KHS Manufacturing and Pyrotec use it to showcase innovative ideas and solution based approaches that meet needs and necessities of the market. A full list of exhibiting companies can be found on the show’s website (see below).

Apart from the above mentioned industry solutions, visitors attending the trade fair can also look forward to a full supporting program. An Exhibitor Forum will feature insights that deal with the needs and challenges of the Southern African market. Leading industry experts will present visitors with practice-oriented case studies and panel discussions.

Topics include “Resource efficient production: save water and energy”, “Solutions for the Brewery Industry”, “Latest trends in packaging for the food/beverage industry” and “Training”.

Other highlights in the supporting program are the MicroBrew Symposium, organised by the VLB, which will take place a day before the trade fair on the 13th of September and the introduction of the winners UniMicroBrew design competition, organised by SABMiller.

Pre-register for food & drink technology Africa online. Pre-registration ensures free entrance to all trade visitors.

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