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Global agriculture is moving fast on resilience, biologicals, carbon markets, partnerships and climate-aligned investment. But how does South Africa actually stack up against that outlook?

S&P Global’s late-2025 agriculture sustainability outlook is useful not only as a global forecast, but as a benchmark for South Africa.[1] Against that benchmark, South Africa shows real strengths — including export capability, growing biologicals interest and movement on carbon-market and risk tools — but it also reveals major gaps in logistics, water governance, inclusion and execution.