Support Mandate for Land Reform Beneficiaries: Enhancing Agricultural Development

1. AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES POST SETTLEMENT SUPPORT PROVIDED TO LAND REFORM BENEFICIARIES V227, Old Assembly BuildingPRESENTATION TO SELECT COMMITTEE ON LAND AND MINERAL RESOURCES (NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES) 16 SEPTEMBER 2014

2. Support mandate Support programmes Motive and purpose for CASP Allocation for CASP grant since inception Expenditure trends Funds gazetted in 2014/15 and expected deliverables Ilima/Letsema purpose Allocation for Ilima/Letsema grant since inception Planned food security programmes Planned hectares to be planted in 2014/15 Recommendations PRESENTATION OUTLINE

3. SUPPORT MANDATE FOR LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES DAFF is committed to the following national and international agendas: Sections 27 (1) (b) and 32 (1) (a) of the Constitution, 1996, right to access food & information. Contributing meaningfully to the realization of SA government’s Programme of Action – 12 Outcomes; outcome 4, 7 & 10 Realization of the MGD goal 1 - Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger • National Development Plan Chapter 3 – Vision 2030: eliminating poverty and reducing inequality - SA has to raise levels of employment (agriculture projected to contribute to 1million jobs, productivity growth and earnings of working people) Maputo AU Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security in Africa of 2003 Contributing to the New Growth Path: 2020 target: create opportunities for 300 000 smallholder farmers, 145 000 jobs in agro-processing & improved conditions for 660 000 farm workers.

4. SUPPORT MANDATE FOR LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES: 12 OUTCOMES

5. SUPPORT PROGRAMMES CASP ILIMA/LETSEMA MAFISA – LOAN COMPONENT PROVINCIAL FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMMES e.g. Siyazondla; Mohomamobung; MasibuyeleEmasiminietc

6. South African agriculture is characterised by a stark bimodal agricultural sector – one large and developed (+- 37 000) and one small and resource poor (+- 2 million). The resource poor is mainly in the former homelands, with poor infrastructure and low education levels. The resource rich agribusinesses with large, complex systems of management and controls are difficult to access by the resource poor. The drive is therefore to support and strengthen the small holder farmers (SMME’s) to enter the mainstream of agriculture economy, eradicate hunger and inequality and contribute towards poverty alleviation. MOTIVE FOR CASP

7. Agricultural sector is critical for the economic development of rural areas and the country as a whole because of its potential to: Create work, both as a direct employer and through its linkages to other sectors: Provide the basis for sustainable livelihoods and small business development on a mass scale in rural communities; Ensure the efficient production of affordable food and other wage goods, assure food security for the poorest and contribute to a climate of low inflation. MOTIVE FOR CASP

8. To provide effective agricultural support services and to streamline the provision of services to targeted beneficiaries of land reform’s restitution and redistribution; as well as to other black producers who have acquired land through private means and are engaged in value-adding enterprises domestically, or involved in export. OVERALL PURPOSE OF CASP

9. TARGET BENEFICIAIRIES AND CASP PILLARS Agric macro systems (Busin & Reg env) The Hungry and Malnourished Subsistence Household FS Small holder and Commercial Comprehensive Agriculture Support Financial Services (MAFISA) Information and Knowledge management Technical and Advisory services On and Off Farm Infra structure Training and Capacity Building Marketing and Business Dev 6 PLILLARS

10. CASP grant since inception

11. CASP Expenditure Trends

12. 2014/15 CASP GAZETTED ALLOCATION AND SPREAD PER PROVINCE

13. TOTAL FUNDS AVAILABLE TO IMPLEMENT CASP AND ILIMA/LETSEMA IN 2014/15

14. Extension officers upgrading qualifications

15. Colleges purpose To revitalize agricultural colleges and reposition them as national agricultural training institutes operating as centres of Excellence.

16. Colleges Focus Areas National Treasury made available R157.8 million over MTEF period 2011/12 – 2013/14 and a new MTEF period has commenced in 2014/15 with an allocation of R58 million in the current financial year. The objectives for the CASP grant is: Improve colleges infrastructure and facilities However, the total revitalization of colleges include: Ensuring learning programmes accreditation and quality assurance Establishing and strengthening governance Ensuring carricula review and providing required resources e.g ICT Building capacity for academic staff

17. COLLEGES ALLOCATION IN 2014/15

18. Ilima/Letsema - Purpose To fight poverty through increased food production. The programme also focuses on unlocking agricultural production by investing in other strategic programmes that includes the rehabilitation of the irrigation schemes, and other value adding projects.

19. ILIMA/LETSEMA grant since inception

20. FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMMES: TARGETS IN 2014/15

21. HECTARES TARGETED FOR PLANTING IN 2014/15

22. Recommendations

23. ENKOSI SIYABONGA KE A LEBOHA DANKIE THANK YOU Stats SA GHS 2013: 1/5 of SA households (18,9%) were involved in agricultural production during the reference period. Of these, 14,2% cultivated farmland while 87,8% created backyard gardens