MARKET INQUIRIES

MERGER REVIEWS

LEGAL & POLICY FRAMEWORKS

ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT

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Empowering regulators. Strengthening markets.

We partner with African competition authorities to build market economies that support inclusive growth, resilient food systems, and shared prosperity.

Our experts provide practical legal and economic guidance to strengthen enforcement, remove obstacles to competition, and unlock opportunity.

Our Vision

Fair, sustainable, transparent and stable market economies especially for small-scale producers, SMEs and consumers.

Our Mission

The Advisory Centre for Competition Law & Policy in Africa provides regulators with the expertise, advice, and capacity, to build market economies that sustain socially-inclusive prosperity, stimulate innovation and overcome deep-rooted societal failures such as hunger and malnutrition, poverty and inequality.

How We Achieve This

We believe that a well-functioning market economy offers a pathway for prosperity for all. This is achieved through competition law and policy that is properly regulated and enforced.

However, our work focusing on food and agriculture markets in Africa has identified extensive market failures and competition obstacles which undermine value creation, food security and nutrition.

The recent emergence of competition laws and institutions provides a unique opportunity to reverse this trend and build food and agricultural markets that drive economic transformation and attract public and private finance.

The Advisory Centre on Competition Law & Policy in Africa provides targeted and strategic support to emerging competition authorities with the aim of making significant impact.

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Expert support for competitive markets

Our services include:

Advising on market inquiries and merger reviews
Developing legal frameworks, guidelines
and codes of conduct
Supporting the investigation of cases of misconduct
Embedding advisors for tailored knowledge exchanges

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CCPC publishes inquiry into poultry sector

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has published an inquiry into the poultry sector in Zambia. According to the inquiry, anti-competitive conduct in the poultry sector in Zambia is costing vulnerable consumers and small producer at least USD 20 million more each year than if markets worked correctly. This undermines efforts to boost the productivity and incomes of independent poultry producers and ensure affordable and nutritious animal-source proteins for p

CAK publishes animal feed sector inquiry

The Competition Authority published an inquiry into the animal feed sector in Kenya. The inquiry found that poultry and dairy farmers in Kenya are paying up to 40% more for animal feed compared with other markets such as South Africa, Brazil and Malaysia, According to the inquiry, this directly translates to higher prices for poultry, eggs, and dairy products, making these essential sources of protein unaffordable to many Kenyan households. The study recommends appropriate

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