Agricultural, marketing and trade policies to promote food security in the SADCC region: a research proposal

In recent years, the nine member states of SADCC have voiced great interest in expanding intraregional trade as one strategy to increasing food security within the region. The fact that six of the nine countries are landlocked, transport costs are high, and dependence on trade with external countries (including South Africa) is viewed as precarious, has contributed to a sense of urgency which resulted in the funding of prefeasibility and feasibility studies to investigate establishing a regional food security scheme based on local grain reserves,

A research paper on regional co-operation in agricultural marketing in Southern Africa to enhance and promote regional food security.