An Outlook on Land Reform 2012: Progress and impact on Food Security in Southern Africa

1. An Outlook on Land Reform 2012: Progress and impact on Food Security in Southern Africa 11TH AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK CONFERENCE 13 & 14 SEPTEMBER 2011 Dawie Maree Agri SA

2. Food security • Definition • Types of food security • National • Household • Vision of government

3. Food Security • G20 Plan of Action • Improve agricultural production and productivity

4. RSA: MAIZE (COMMERCIAL)AREA PLANTED AND PRODUCTION Source: DAFF

5. Volume index of agricultural production Source: DAFF

6. Food Security • G20 Plan of Action • Improve agricultural production and productivity • Increase market information and transparency • Strengthen international policy coherence and coordination • Improve and develop risk management tools • Improve functioning of agricultural commodities’ derivative markets

7. SouthAfricanAgriculture Property rights Food security Poor infrastructure Corruption Trade policy Crime Input costs Service delivery Labour dispensation

8. Land Reform in South Africa • Contentious and emotive • Land reform since 1994 • 3-pronged approach • Target for 2014 • Progress and success??? • Reasons for failure

9. International experience • Mexico • Ownership • Production • Dependancy • Tanzania • Ownership • Productivity • Brazil • Expropriation • Government support • Market-related strategies

10. Green Paper on Land Reform, 2011 • Vision • 4-tier system of land tenure • Clearly defined property rights • Secure forms of long-term land tenure for resident non-citizens • Effective land use planning and regulatory systems • Improved trajectory • Improve past and current perspectives without substantially disrupting production and food security • Avoid/minimise redistribution and restitution which do not generate sustainable livelihoods, employment and incomes

11. Green Paper on Land Reform, 2011 • Improved trajectory support by: • Recapitalisation and development programme • Single 4-tier tenure system • State and public land – Leasehold • Privately owned land – Freehold, with limited extent • Land owned by foreigners – Freehold, with obligations and conditions • Communally owned land – Communal tenure, with institutionalised use rights • An Australian example

12. Green Paper on Land Reform, 2011 • Improved trajectory support by (continue): • Land Management Commission • Land Valuer-General • Land Rights Management Board, with local management committees • Properly aligned common property institutions • Tenure Security Bill, 2010

13. Green Paper on Land Reform, 2011 • Key challenges and constraints: • Entrenched vested interests • Poor coordination and integration • Poor capacity of organs of state to implement

15. Is there still a future for the South African Farmer?

16. Conclusion/Road forward • National Land Audit • More definite process for land reform and rural development • Critical debate • Expansion into Africa • Local focus on food security

17. South African Farmers leaving

18. Thank you