Competitiveness of Namibia’s Agri-Food Commodities: Implications for Food Security

The global literature widely uses Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Lafay Index (LFI), Export Diversification (EDI), Hirschman (HI), and Major Category (MEC) to analyze international trade flows, though agricultural trade, specifically agri-food commodities consisting of food feed commodities, is neglected in empirical works. Furthermore, the determinants Advantages have received little attention, with focus on relationships between insecurity as measured by Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) aforementioned factors, including RCA LFI indices explanatory variables other macroeconomic variables. purpose this study was ascertain competitiveness Namibia’s products, factors that influence it, their implication for security. This attempts answer which affect comparative advantage, a advantage disadvantage, what implications are employed regression analysis, Scale, various indices. indicated mixed result during period. less concentrated structure throughout results market estimated revealed Namibia unduly dependent incorporated study. showed significant negative labor land productivity aggregated commodities. Land GDP per capita impact degree Namibia. concludes not had bearing These analyses enlighten policymakers about business its security through evidence-based policy development.