BRANCH
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
PRESENTER: Peter Ngobese
Assistant Director-General
Programme 2: Farmer Support and Development
IMPLEMETATION STRATEGY
Knowledge and Information Management (KIM)
- Disaster early warning system
- Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information Management System (FIVISMS)
- Agricultural risks and disaster management and food security awareness campaigns
Governance
- Farmer Settlement Provincial Co-ordinators
- Agro meteorological Committee
- Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) Steering Committee
Programme 2: Farmer Support and Development
KRA 1: Ensuring access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food
- Establish and maintain effective early warning and mitigation systems in agriculture
- Provide leadership in the implementation of the Integrated Food Security and nutrition Programme
KRA2: Eliminating skewed participation and inequity in the sector
- Increase access to existing resources (principally land and production support) and opportunities within the agricultural sector for historically disadvantaged groups and individuals
KRA 3: Optimising growth, remunerative job opportunities and income in agriculture
- Reduce the levels of risks associated with diseases, pests and natural disasters
Programme 2: Farmer Support and Development (Cont)
POLICY AREAS
Agricultural Finance Policy
- Framework for Farmer to Farmer Mentorship
- Policy Framework on Right to Food
- Agricultural Climate Policy Framework
- Agricultural Risk and Disaster management Strategy
- Drought Management Strategy
Programme 2: Farmer Support and Development (Cont)
- Early Warning Monthly Climate Advisories
- Agricultural Risk Management Plans
- Agricultural Risk and Disaster Management Schemes
- Agricultural Finance Products
- Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Programme (IFSNP)
- Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information Management (FIVIMS) Systems design
- Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD)
Programme 3: Trade and Business Development
Policy
- AgriBEE Charter
- SMME strategy
- Commodity plans
- Marketing review
- Negotiating directives
Products and services
- Market information
- Marketing norms
- AgriBEE showcase
- SMME training
- Mentorship incentives
- Africa trade workshops
Implementation
- Collaboration and co-ordination (ATF, Reference gp, commodities, PDAs, the DTI)
- BEE showcase
- Trade negotiations
- New structure
- Technical reconnaissance
- Africa engagement
- DITC and ICC
CHALLENGES
- Making progress and exploiting the synergies between trade with Africa, US, China, Mercosur, EU
- Working with provinces - beyond training and managing a cohesive strategy on international trade and marketing
PRIORITIES FOR 2004/05
- AgriBEE and Scorecard
- Marketing Review and Development of information System
- Africa
- Negotiations
Programme 4: Economic Research and analysis
Policy and legislation
- Research and advice on agricultural economic and policy issues
- Norms and standards for generating and disseminating statistics
- Norms for agricultural production and resource economic services
Programmes and services
- Building adequate analytical and advisory capacity
- Strengthening of Agricultural Economics Standing Committee
- Releasing more information into the public domain
- Availability of FINREC, COMBUDS and farm models
- National economics research agenda
- Networking with clients, partners and service providers