THE FUTURE

1. THE FUTURE WHERE TO GO FROM HERE?

2. THE FUTURE: some pre-requisites #1 Everyorganized human activity gives rise to two fundamental and opposing requirements: • division of labour into various tasks to be performed and • coordination of these tasks to accomplish the activity (Mintzberg)

3. THE FUTURE: some pre-requisites : #2 ‘Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler’

4. EXTENSION ACTION DOMAINS • DECISION-MAKING & ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS • RESOURCE MANAGEMENT • PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGIES AND INCOME GENERATION • LINKAGE BETWEEN SUPPORT SERVICES, TARGET GROUP(S), AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION • PERFORMANCE OF SUPPORT SERVICES • LINKAGES WITH THE WIDER CONTEXT

5. FARMERS AND THE AGRIBUSINESSES OF THE 21 CENTURY EXTENSION RECOVERY PLAN Provision of ICT infrastructure and other resources Recruitment of 1000 personnel over the MTEF Promote professionalism and improve the image Re skilling and re orientation of extension Ensure accountability and visibility of extension

6. A tree shall be known by its fruit …

7. Can the Extension Recovery Plan … • Ensure sufficient interaction with knowledge generation processes to influence competition for power and financial resources between extension and research? • Monitor agricultural input and output to manage the inability to conclusively trace cause and effect of farming production? • Offer sufficient commitment and political support to facilitate implementation and financial support? • Assure full accountability in terms of support and servicing to farmers? • Support the agricultural commercialization process through the provision of supportive extension inputs to all farmers at all levels? • Assist farmers in interpreting scale and complexity of the agricultural production environment? 7

8. Support the identification, training and mentoring of suitable small scale • entrepreneurs to become competitive and economically successful • farmers, managers, consultants and agribusiness entrepreneurs • – greater participation in mainstream agricultural activities? • Manage the dependence of farmers on the wider policy environment and other industry functions – especially problems created by institutional frameworks and other discriminatory and unfavorable measures? • Strengthen and support the strongly commercialized section of the agricultural sector to maintain its global competitiveness? • Offer full support to the whole farming community beyond agricultural knowledge and information transfer? 8

9. Important features… • Design and facilitate implementation of compulsory education and training programs for extension practitioners and support personnel • Develop capacity building programs on management of knowledge • and information • Provide extension personnel with Decision Support Systems in line • with the farming practice in a given geographical locality

10. EXTENSION TRAINING & EDUCATIONGetting air under its wings • CURRICULUM INNOVATION • IN-SERVICE TRAINING • RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING • INTERACTIVE POLICY DEVELOPMENT • STRENGTHENING PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPACITY CIAT

11. EXTENSION TRAINING & EDUCATIONassumptions • Do it together is the best way to do it “United we stand, divided we fall” • Both sides are ready to reach for the stars with all that we have got • Willingness, know-how and resources are available • There is capacity to learn and what is learned can be applied, retained and proliferate

12. Getting there

13. Connectivity

14. Handling problems

15. Aspirations

16. Decision-making procedures

17. THE FUTURE Curriculum Review • finalizing B.Agric. Reformulation • design Honours curriculum - review Diploma course

18. THE FUTURE in-service training Big5 - Training cycles 3,4 &5 - Tackling the backlog - Certificate of attendance - Feedback to assignments - Accreditation assignmentBig-5 - ToT manual + exercise book - Establishing a pool of Big-5 trainers - Set up network extension trainers

19. THE FUTURE Research - MSc graduates get going - MSc students finalize their studies - Graduation PhD students • Publication CAPRI Research Book

20. THE FUTURE • Strengthening project management capacity • Action plan • Registration and filing systems • Project management training • Induction training on Account management • Boosting HRM (job profiles, ask descriptions) • Performance monitoring • Staff development, team building • Program evaluation

21. THE FUTURE Support training materials for extension - Extension documentation support centre - Norms & Standards guide for extension field staff - Partial manuals - Financial management - Farm business planning - Adding value: processing and transformation - Market access - Producer organizations - LRAD: starting up a farm Do’s & Don’ts - Training manual, extension guide, case book

22. THE FUTURE Action planning • Extension management course • Local governance * • M&E *(Boustene voor Beleid) *Applied research strategy design • Urban agriculture • AgriBEE mentor model • PPP for market access • Rural-urban linkages - Farm business planning

23. THE FUTURE • From the moment people are capable to understand – through their actions and the way they think about their actions – how the way they see things is conditioned by the context they are in , they will start seeing things in a different perspective. • That does not mean that the context they are in will change by itself. • What has changed is that until now they had seen reality as something they could not change, but they now see reality with other eyes. They see reality for what it is: as a historically and culturally defined condition, created by people’s actions – and therefore as a condition in which they can bring about change through their own actions as well.

24. THE FUTURE IS NOW!