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According to the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) Report 2024, the top ten imported product categories make up 81% of Africa’s total agricultural imports. Cereals, animal or vegetable fats and oils, and sugars and sugar confectionery together represent 50% of this total.
Africa’s major agricultural imports largely consist of products for which the continent lacks a revealed comparative advantage (RCA), with notable exceptions being sugars and sugar confectionery and tobacco substitutes.
According to the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) Report 2024, the top ten imported product categories make up 81% of Africa’s total agricultural imports. Cereals, animal or vegetable fats and oils, and sugars and sugar confectionery together represent 50% of this total.
This illustrates Africa’s challenge in meeting growing domestic demand driven by income increases, demographic changes, and urbanization, given its limited production capacity.
The report says that Africa remains a major partner in world markets, capturing 20% of cereal imports and 14%of sugar and sugar confectionery imports. Oilseeds and oleaginous fruits, which account for 4% of Africa’s agricultural imports bill, have a very rapid growth rate of nearly 18%.
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According to the AATM 2024 database, the top major agricultural import commodities in Africa from 2018 to 2022, based on average annual growth rates, are Cereals, Animal or vegetable fats and oils, Sugars and sugar confectionery, Dairy produce, eggs, and honey.
