• Agricultural value chains in the SADC region should be geared towards creating opportunities both for small-scale subsistence farming and large-scale, export-geared commercial farming, thus constituting a ‘dual approach’ to agricultural development in the region.

• Governments and the business sector should form public–private sector partnerships to develop resilient infrastructure for the agricultural sector, including the adoption of climatesmart technologies.

• Various activities in SADC agro-value chains should be digitalised to ensure more effective interactions between farmers, input suppliers, transport and logistics service providers, financiers and other value chain partners.

• Priority should be given at government level to concluding outstanding issues relating to the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which would then constitute the springboard for higher volumes of agricultural trade, thus improving trade revenues, food security and employment in the agricultural sector across the continent.