Transcript An Overview of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries Sectors

AN OVERVIEW
OF THE
AGRICULTURE,
FORESTRY &
FISHERIES
SECTORS
01 JULY 2014
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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Contextual Background
Sectoral Background & Challenges
The Dept of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries
Legislative & Policy Mandates
Sector Performance
Outcomes-based Focus Areas
National Priorities
Challenges/Threats
Opportunities
Conclusion
Implications for Oversight
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CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUND
 2009/10: Department of Agriculture, Forestry &
Fisheries establishment initiated - amalgamation of
Forestry from former DWAF & Fisheries from former
DEAT.
 Challenges: Personnel alignment; budget adjustment
due to OSD (finalised in Forestry & partial in
Fisheries, which led to loss of some Fisheries
personnel); additional vacancies.
 Response: restructuring - creation of a new
organogram & programmes – finalised in 2012.
 DG appointed in Sept 2010 & left in mid-2012 – new
DG appointed in October 2013.
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SECTORAL BACKGROUND
Agriculture
Forestry
Fisheries
• Field crops,
horticulture & animal
production
• Export-oriented
commercial sector
• ~1% of SA land area
• Indigenous forests,
woodlands &
plantations
• Indigenous
forests/woodlands –
rural economic dev
• Plantations –
commercial
• Deep-water & near
shore fisheries
• Highly industrialised
commercial sector
• Under-resourced
smallscale –
historically, limited
rights
(high-potential land)
• Under-resourced
smallholder sector
(marginal lands – former
homelands)
• Focus on equitable
access & sector
transformation
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SECTORAL CHALLENGES
Agriculture
Forestry
Fisheries
• Critical skills
shortage
• Farmer capacity,
dev & support
• Climate change –
• Skills shortage
• Water licensing
• Limited R & D
• Lack of funding for
investment
• Climate change -
• Declining fish
stocks – limit
industry growth
• Climate change –
droughts, floods, pests.
• Disease
outbreaks
• Land degradation
• International trade
– subsidies, import
tariffs & SPS measures
fires, pests & diseases
• Forest
degradation
• Lack of timber
species reproductive
capacity, migration
• International
trade – prices,
exchange rates
• Rights allocation
• Cost of production
inputs – fuel, vessel
maintenance
(smallscale)
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DEPT OF AGRIC, FORESTRY &
FISHERIES
Programmes
Entities
1. Administration
2. Agricultural Production, Health
& Food Safety
3. Food Security & Agrarian
Reform
4. Economic Development,
Trade & Marketing
5. Forestry & Natural Resources
Management
6. Fisheries Management
• Agricultural Research Council
• Onderstepoort Biological
Products
• National Agricultural Marketing
Council
• Perishable Products Export
Control Board
• Ncera Farms (Pty) Ltd
• Marine Living Resources Fund
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LEGISLATIVE
MANDATE
Overview
 Mandate: to address production &
consumption in the agriculture, forestry &
fisheries sectors.
 Section 27(1)(b) of the Constitution: “Everyone
has the right to have access to sufficient food.”
 Further: Sections 27(2) & 24(b)(iii) – obligation for
realisation of the right above & sustainable natural resource use.
 33 Acts of Parliament (Annexure 1).
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POLICY
MANDATE
Overview
 Strategic Plan for Agriculture (2001): key
driving force for agriculture & its vision was a
“united and prosperous agricultural sector”. It
focused on:
(a) Equitable access & participation
(b) Global competitiveness & profitability
(c) Sustainable resource management
 Evaluation of Plan (2007/08) – progress on
(c) but (a) required urgent attention.
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POLICYOverview
MANDATE CONT...
 Since 2009, no overarching & integrated policy.
Short-term interventions: IGDP in 2012 & APAP in
2013 – both not presented in Parliament.
 National Gov Priority Outcomes:
4 - Decent employment
7 - Rural development & food security
10 - Natural resource protection & management
 National policy frameworks incl. the MTSF (being
developed), IPAP, NGP & NDP; as well as SONA
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SECTOR
PERFORMANCE
Overview
 Agriculture: approx 3% to GDP – however, if
forward & backward linkages to economy of
agribusiness value chain considered, ~12%.
- approx 5% employment (640 000 people).
 Forestry: approx 1.2% to GDP
- approx 7 000 workers (+30 000 indirectly).
 Fisheries: approx 0.5% to GDP
- approx 27 000 workers (+100 000 indirectly)
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OUTCOMES-BASED FOCUS AREAS
Overview
 Food Security (Outcome 7): Nationally, IFSS (2002).
Dept had no specific policy but addressed by providing support
through conditional grants such as CASP (smallholder
producers), Ilima/letsema (subsistence producers) & various
other programmes. Food & Nutrition Security Policy (Sept 2013)
– DAFF & Social Development - Fetsa Tlala Initiative. M & E of
conditional grants & implementation of new Policy essential (role
of each Dept).
 Job creation (Outcome 4): Agric labour-intensive &
ability to absorb unskilled & semi-skilled labour, identified as a
key job driver in the NGP. In addition to private sector jobs,
DAFF contributes to job creation mostly through EPWP
programmes, viz. LandCare (rehabilitation in agric + forestry), Million
Trees Project, Working for Fisheries. Sustainability of jobs (M & E).
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O-B FOCUS
AREAS CONT...
Overview
 Rural Development (Outcome 7): Agric considered
backbone of rural economy & driver of rural economic
development. Lead Agrarian Transformation pillar of the CRDP
(DRDLR) – focus on post-settlement support for land reform
beneficiaries & dev agric, forestry & fisheries rural enterprises.
- No collaboration between 2 depts – variation amongst
provinces.
- Role of mentorships & strategic partnerships on land reform
projects (sustainability & benefit to beneficiaries).
 Sustainable use of natural resources (Outcome
10): LandCare - Rehabilitation of degraded agric land &
woodlands, alien & invasive species clearing; Greening Prog.
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NATIONAL
PRIORITIES
Overview
 Develop & expand agroprocessing (entire value
chain) – agric (food processing), forestry (paper, timber,
furniture) & aquaculture (IPAP) – aquaculture: collaboration
between DAFF, dti & Proudly SA to develop campaign on
kabeljou (dusky kob) by Q3 of 2014/15.
 300 000 HH in smallholder schemes by 2015 & 500
000 jobs from agric & specifically, 145 000 jobs from
agroprocessing (wine & fruit exports) by 2020 (NGP).
 1M new jobs by 2030 in agriculture, agroprocessing
& related sectors by 2030 (NDP) – infrastructure
investment (irrigation). 33% surplus from smallscale sector.13
CHALLENGES/THREATS
 Internal:
 Technical & financial support: accessibility & state of
extension service (lack skills) – ERP (qualification upgrades &
further training) - National Policy on Extension & Advisory
Services – in progress; lack of infrastructure (usually on-farm &
limited); accessibility & limited finance instruments (CASP,
Mafisa); general shortage of critical skills.
 Lack of info on smallholder sector: absence of baseline
data (database) – (numbers, spatial location, land access,
productive potential, resource needs, categories). Most agric
info & stats based on commercial sector. Hard to evaluate
progress & assess impact of intervention without a baseline.
 IGR: Lack of coordination amongst Depts – slow/little progress duplication with limited resources. On CRDP, DAFF & DRDLR
competing instead of complementing each other.
 Poor investment on R & D: ARC commercially-oriented;
limited research on smallholders by academic institutions
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CHALLENGES/THREATS CONT...
Overview
 External
 Climate change: huge impact on the 3 sectors & changes in
production areas inevitable – risk & vulnerability maps (ARC &
CSIR) – adaptation; natural disasters & disease outbreaks
 Encroachment on agric land: impact of mining, fracking,
urban development on productivity, water & grazing land –
Protection & Development of Agricultural Land Bill being
developed.
 International trade policies – impact of subsidies, SPS
measures & commodity prices on exports & competition,
particularly for newcomers – Marketing Bills.
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OPPORTUNITIES: SHORT-TERM
 2014: AU African Year of Agriculture & Food Security
(CAADP 10-yr commemoration); UN International Year of
Family Farming.
 NGP/NDP: Agroprocessing - prioritise value-addition
across entire chain.
 Increase area under production: use spatial mapping
& analysis (ARC-ISCW) – comparative advantage or
productive potential (agric); afforestation / reforestation
(forestry).
 Infrastructure: irrigation, on- & off-farm, agroprocessing
(all 3 sectors) – security against vandalism, ensure regular
maintenance.
 Comprehensive producer support: IGR & PPP
(commodity groups) - technical, finance, capacity building, markets
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OPPORTUNITIES:
LONG-TERM
Overview
 CAADP - NDP: SA not yet signed CAADP Compact investment opportunities; private sector involvement;
capacity building; increase commercial agric; regional
export markets.
 Agric: identify opportunities for new & niche markets e.g.
olive oil production small in SA; diversion of blocked
exports (citrus) to new markets; smallholder livestock dev;
established commercial sector - PPP (e.g. NWGA
communal sheep in EC); organic farming.
 Forestry: Processing (sawmilling, furniture-making);
rehabilitation of old plantations; non-forest products enterprises.
 Fisheries: Aquaculture expansion; new fisheries.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR OVERSIGHT
 Focused leadership & institutional capability:
- development of long-term & integrated sector policy
based on experience & evidence to ensure it straddles
changes in administration (use NDP as roadmap). Full
Integration of Forestry & Fisheries into Agriculture.
- address skills shortages across all 3 sectors including
extension capacity (essential for smallholder sector).
 Committee M & E of policy, legislation & programmes
wrt development, processing, tabling, implementation
(plans essential), budgeting & financial resource use –
realisation of national priorities. Utilise DPME reports, AG
& other tools.
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IMPLICATIONS
CONT...
Overview
 IGR: Coordination on crosscutting mandates – PCs
on RDLR, Social Development, Trade & Industry,
Public Works, Finance, inter alia as well as relevant
SCs to seek clarity on responsibilities, ensure
resource mobilisation & efficient use of state
resources against competing priorities amongst
government departments & agencies.
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CONCLUSION
Overview
 Unless agriculture reaches some degree of
commercialisation, the impact of agricultural
growth on food insecurity and poverty
alleviation is likely to be limited – promote
PPP to leverage on the established
commercial sector. (NDP, CAADP)
 Oversee policy-mandated development and
comprehensive support of the smallholder
sector to address transformation objectives
not only in agriculture, but in forestry and
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fisheries.
THANK YOU
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