Farmers must overcome a plethora of challenges, including land reform, safety risks, limiting trade measures, climate change and a lack of agricultural development, training, energy, resources, water, rural infrastructure, technology and access to finance. As an interest group it is the duty of SAAI to play an active role in the execution of active strategic solutions for this and other agricultural problems and not to merely rest on the hope of policy influence. SAAI – as a vehicle to strive for this goal – is not a traditional agricultural union, but rather a network based on cooperation and the application of modern technology and pure principles.