AGRICULTURAL PUBLIC SECTOR STRATEGIC OVERVIEW

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AGRICULTURAL PUBLIC SECTOR STRATEGIC OVERVIEW

• Department of Agriculture

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Context

• Integrated Economic Cluster Action Plan
  identified targeted interventions that the state
  needed to make.
• Microeconomic Reform Strategy went beyond the
  original framework to identify micro-level
  interventions and strategies to be undertaken
  alongside macro reforms
• Ten Year Review and Scenario Planning concluded
  on need to focus on the 4 big ideas
• Reflections on the economic performance of
  government over the past ten years raised the
  challenges and contradictions of responding to
  the needs of the first and second economy

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Integrated Economic Action Plan

• Managed deregulation
• Targeted Investments
• Focus on target Sectors
• Performance in the Areas of growth jobs small
  medium and micro enterprises smmes and black
  economic empowerment.

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Strategic Cluster Focus
TOWARDS THE SECOND DECADE OF FREEDOM
10 Year Review
Scenarios
Cluster Priorities
MTSF 2004 - 2007
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VISION - 2014

• Guided by the Reconstruction and Development
  Programme (RDP), our vision is to build a society
  that is truly united, non-racial, non-sexist and
  democratic. Central to this is a single and
  integrated economy that benefits all.

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THE FOUR SCENARIOS
SGUDI SNAIS
SKEDONK
SHOSHOLOZA
DULISANANG
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The 4 Big Ideas

• Framework of encompassing interest - a Social
  Compact
• Improving the performance of the State
• Addressing the consequences of the social
  transition
• Improving the regional environment and
  implementing NEPAD

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Cluster - strategic 5 year objectives

• Continued macroeconomic stability
• Increased levels of public investment in
  infrastructure
• Lower cost structures throughout the economy and
  enhanced levels of competition
• Manufacturing and services sectors that are
  growing, creating jobs, increasing the value-add,
  meeting basic needs, competing globally
• More enterprises especially black and women owned
  and managed enterprises

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Cluster - strategic 5 year objectives

• A labour force with the skills needed by the
  economy
• Increased spending on R and D activities and the
  diffusion of new technologies across the economy
• More equitable geographic spread of economic
  activity

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Broad implementation strategies

• Maintain a stable macroeconomic environment
• Microeconomic reform strategy to minimize input
  costs and increase access increase investment in
  platforms for development and competitiveness
  unlock the potential of priority sectors
• Second-economy strategy to address poverty and
  unemployment, and create economic opportunities
  to build a single economy that benefits all
• Governance strategy to build institutional
  capacity to implement, sequence actions, monitor
  and evaluate

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Agricultural Challenges
S'GUDI-SNAIS DULISANANG SKEDONK SHOSHOLOZA
Increasing competitiveness Expanding remunerative participation in the economy Successful land reform SMMEs and food gardens becoming more than just a source of subsistence BEE SMMEs engaged in productive and innovative sectors Becoming and sustaining a competitive edge Unity and prosperity being congruent with racial diversity Agriculture continuing to contribute to economic growth of 6 and more Agricultural sector significant with respect SMMEs job creation and the knowledge economy
How does the agricultural strategic plan
anticipate, preempt or lead us towards any of
these threats?
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Microeconomic Reform Strategy
Input Sectors Transport Energy Telecommunication
s Water
Sequencing of actions
Priority Sectors Agriculture Tourism Cultural ICT
s Mining metals Clothing textiles Chemicals
biotech Auto transport Services
Key Performance Areas Growth Employment Equity
Cross-cutting interventions HRD Technology and
RD Access to capital Infrastructure Geographic
spread Small enterprises Investor
Perceptions BEE Africa
Building institutional capacity to implement
action plans
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Interventions in the Second Economy
Main Objectives of the Interventions
Catalytic focussed programmes while attending to
broad socio-economic challenges
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Interventions in the Second Economy
Specific interventions required

• Human Resource Development Strategy
• Intensified implementation of the learnership
  programme beyond the targets identified in the
  GDS agreement
• Further Education and Training (FET) with focus
  on artisan and entrepreneurial training
• Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) with
  specific focus on education in economics
• Labour market and economic opportunities
  intelligence to provide relevant information to
  outsiders

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Interventions in the Second Economy
Specific interventions required

• Expanded Public Works Programme
• Training programme for participants either as
  employees or small contractors
• Ensuring implementation of agreed balance in use
  of funds by local and provincial authorities in
  labour-based methods
• Long-term employment in maintenance of social
  infrastructure
• Long-term employment in provision of social
  services

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Interventions in the Second Economy
Specific interventions required

• Support for Small and Micro-Enterprises
• Reform of SMME support system, including
  operationalisation of the Apex Fund and
  implementation of the Financial Charter
• Implementation of programme on assistance to and
  encouragement of collectives
• Improvement of system of registration and
  collateralisation of assets in the hands of poor
  individuals, households and communities

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Interventions in the Second Economy
Specific interventions required

• Land and agrarian reforms
• Labour-intensive exploitation of agricultural
  potential
• Land redistribution combined with intensive
  farmer support programme
• Speeding up land restitution and support to
  community projects and activities that provide
  sustainable livelihood  

Conceptualisation, integration and focus in
implementation, monitoring and evaluation a
Strategy for Second Economy Interventions 
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Agricultural Response
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Policy frameworks
1994 2004 2014
Reconstruction and Development Programme -Broadening Access To Agriculture Thrust -White Paper on Agricultural Principles 1995 Microeconomic Reform Programme -Agricultural Sector Strategy a united and prosperous agricultural sector. Vision 2014 - Agricultural Growth Employment Equity AGEE
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Agricultural Sector Plan

• Agricultural Sector Plan (2001) is based on a
  common vision for A United and Prosperous
  Agricultural Sector
• With three mutually reinforcing strategic
  objectives_Enhancing equitable access and
  participation in the sector Improving global
  competitiveness and enterprise profitabilityEnsu
  ring sustainable resources use and management

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Department of Agriculture

• Vision
• A United and Prosperous Agricultural Sector

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Current Key Products and Services

• National Leadership in in terms of policy,
  legislation, setting strategic priorities,
  advice, norms and standards, information,
  monitoring and evaluation, supervision and
  reporting
• National Regulatory Services with respect to
  national legislation, regulations, controls,
  auditing services and inspection services
• National Coordination Services we facilitate
  provincial, public entities coordination,
  international agreements professional networks
  public private,community partnerships
  agricultural human resources development

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Current Key Products and Services

• National Agricultural Risk Management manage
  early warning systems, disater management policy
  response, recovery, mitigation and
  preparedness, Pest control and plant and
  diseases control

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Defining AGEE
Growth
AGE2
Equity
Employment
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Towards a single integrated economy
New Economy
AGE2
1st Economy
2nd Economy
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Strategic priorities for the next 5 yrs

• Implementation of the Comprehensive Agricultural
  Support Programme
• Implementation of the Integrated Food Security
  and Nutrition Programme
• Agricultural Broad based Black Economic
  Empowerment Programme
• African Agricultural Development Programme
• Improving Knowledge and Information Management
  Systems
• Research and Development and Technology Transfer
• Improving National Regulatory Systems
• Natural Resources Management Focus

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CASP

• AIM OF COMPREHENSIVE AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT
  PROGRAMME
• To enhance the provision of support services to
  promote and facilitate agricultural development
  targeting beneficiaries of the Land Reform and
  Agrarian Reforms programmes within the following
  six priority areas

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The CASP Model
Macrosystem including regulatory and consumer
environment
Farm Enterprise and Agri -Business
Household Food Production
The Hungry and Vulnerable
6 Pillars
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IFSNP

• The programme aims to achieve physical, social
  and economic access to safe and nutritious food
  for all South Africans
• The broad objectives are to fight hunger, reduce
  poverty and to build a culture of self sustenance
  through the promotion of food home gardens for
  family consumption needs as well as communal
  gardens as business directed enterprises.
• DoA lead department within the Social Cluster
  and Regional Food Security Interventions
• Food Production support is most significant
  support to integrated sustainable rural
  development

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The AgriBEE Framework

• The draft AgriBEE Framework establishes guiding
  principles and targets for broad based black
  economic empowerment in agriculture.
• It is intended to assist all existing and
  potential future stakeholders and partners in the
  agricultural sector to engage in a meaningful
  dialogue and course of action that can, in the
  shortest time possible, erase the negative
  effects of our history of a dual sector and
  achieve outputs that can contribute to the higher
  societal ideal of a better life for all. 
• Minister for Agriculture and Land Affairs,
  Thoko Didiza, at the launch of the AgriBEE
  Framework, 26 July 2004.

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AADP

• Objective - Promote South African agricultures
  interests in the world through the development
  and consolidation of bilateral relations with
  special focus on Africa and South South
  Cooperation
• Pillars- Trade, Technology, Training, People,
  Politics
• Key Components Technical assistance Programme
  to support bilateral agreementsImplementation
  of the Comprehensive African Agricultural
  Development Programme 4 elements land and
  water, food security research and development
  and market access

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Research and Technology Transfer

• R and D returns are over the long term
• Challenge of increasing to level of public
  investment in agricultural research link also
  to the NEPAD level commitments
• Objective of the programme is to ensure support
  for agricultural research and technology transfer
  and to identify priority research areas for the
  sector through the National Agricultural
  Research Forum.

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National Regulatory Services

• Programme focused on managing risks associated
  with plant and animal diseases, food safety and
  the use of genetically modified organisms
• Challenge is with increased movement of goods and
  services comes increase in diseases risks.

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Other Priorities

• Natural Resources ManagementBest practices for
  sustainable agricultureLegislative environment
  SUAR, Biodiversity Bill Awareness and
  enforcement Confronting the risks and threats
  game farming, desertification.
• Human Resources ManagementCreating new human
  capital for the sector youth, women in the
  areas of management, entrepreneurs, scientists
  etc
• Knowledge and Information Management
  SystemsCommon standards, indicators and
  interoperability of information systems.

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Land and Agrarian Reform
Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Programme
Agro processing Industries
Household Food Production Programmes
Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme
Viable Farming Enterprises
Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development
Where it is agricultural land
Agro Tourism Strategy
Water Resources Strategy
Restitution Programme Tenure Reform Programme
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The way forward

• Policy frameworks generally in place challenge
  is implementation
• Implementation systems not synergistic Cluster
  system at national level working but requires
  improved focus not aligned with departmental
  implementation systems and provincial system of
  implementation concept of a social compact and
  partnership with civil society not being
  implemented
• International dimensions to our work and focus
  have posed increased pressures and untapped
  opportunities
• Knowledge economy and all its traits are here on
  us.