KEY DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES TARGETING WOMEN June 2015

1. KEY DEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMMES TARGETING WOMEN June 2015

2. 1: The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011 – Women in Agriculture – A review by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) • The report documents the following evidence on gender gaps women face in agriculture and rural development:- • operate smaller farms, on average only half to two-thirds as large; • keep fewer livestock, typically of smaller breeds, and earn less from the livestock they do own; • have a greater overall workload that includes a heavy burden of low-productivity activities like fetching water and firewood; • have less education and less access to agricultural information and extension services; • use less credit and other financial services; • are much less likely to purchase inputs such as fertilizers, improved seeds and mechanical equipment; • if employed, are more likely to be in part-time, seasonal and low-paying jobs; and • receive lower wages for the same work, even when they have the same experience and qualifications.

3. Key massages of the report The report shows how agricultural policies and programmes aimed at closing the gender gap can also generate significant gains for the agriculture sector, food security and society as a whole. - Women comprise, on average, 43 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries : This average share ranges from 20 percent in Latin America to 50 percent in Eastern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Their contribution to agricultural work varies even more widely depending on the specific crop and activity. - Women in agriculture and rural areas have less access than men to productive resources and opportunities:- The gender gap is found for many assets, inputs and services and it imposes costs on the agriculture sector, the broader economy and society as well as on women themselves.

4. - Closing the gender gap in agriculture would generate significant gains for the agriculture sector and for society. If women had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase yields on their farms by 20–30 percent. This could raise total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5–4 percent. - Production gains of this magnitude could reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12–17 percent. The potential gains would vary by region depending on how many women are currently engaged in agriculture, how much production or land they control, and how wide a gender gap they face. - These potential productivity gains are just the first round of social benefits that would come from closing the gender gap. When women control additional income, they spend more of it than men do on food, health, clothing and education for their children. This has positive implications for immediate well-being as well as long-run human capital formation and economic growth.

5. Policy interventions can help close the gender gap in agriculture and rural labour markets. Priority areas for reform include: – eliminating discrimination against women in access to agricultural resources, education, extension and financial services, and labour markets; – investing in labour-saving and productivity enhancing technologies and infrastructure to free women’s time for more productive activities; and – facilitating the participation of women in flexible, efficient and fair rural labour markets.

6. - Female farmers produce less than male farmers, but not because they are less-efficient farmers – extensive empirical evidence shows that the productivity gap between male and female farmers is caused by differences in input use.

7. 2. KEY PROGRAMMES TARGETING WOMEN BY THE DEPARTMENT AND RELEVANT ENTITIES INTENDED TO BENEFITWOMEN. Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Female Entrepreneur Awards (DAF FFEA) is a departmental programme which seeks to correct the skewed participation of women in the sector by acknowledge, encourage and increase the equal participation of women, young women and women with disabilities in agriculture, forestry and fisheries activities. The programme has become the empowerment platform that recognizes the entrepreneurial skills of women, youth and people with disabilities in the sector and their involvement in the country’s economic transformation. The programme is a joint venture between DAFF, provinces and other key stakeholders and manifests in the form of annual female entrepreneur awards events. Total Southern Africa has been the main sponsor of the awards since inception in 1999. Over the past 16 years the initiative grew to enjoy the sector’s attention as the unsurpassed reward for women in agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

8. A total of 80 women were rewarded for their efforts and recognised for their contribution in the sector. The winners are awarded with prize money and DAFF is persuading that the substantial amount of the award should be used towards the development of their enterprises. The winners are furthermore exposed to a training and capacity-building programme that addresses their needs such as financial enterprise management, AgriBiz and Making Market Matters etc.

9. 2.1 AgriBEE Fund AgriBEE Fund: is a Fund that draws from the AgriBEE Empowerment Charter for its scope, thus the entire agricultural value chain such as production, processing, marketing and distribution. It seeks to promote the entry and participation of the previously marginalized groups, including black women, in the entire agriculture, forestry and fisheries value chains, through provision of funding for equity deals, acquisition of Interests in agriculture, forestry and fisheries entities and enterprise development (small, medium and micro enterprises). A total of 2 240 women have been assisted through the AgriBEE Fund.

10. 2.2 Micro Agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa (MAFISA) Micro Agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa (MAFISA) is a financial scheme that seeks to address financial services needs of the smallholder farmers and agribusinesses. MAFISA provides capital (loans) of not more than R500 000 per person to enhance agricultural activities through the purchase of production inputs (fertilizers, seeds, pesticides, animal feed and remedies etc.) and small equipment and implements (Knapsack spray, wheel barrow, spades, etc.). Considerations are made to ensure parity when implementing this financial scheme. A total of 7100 women were supported from March 2009 to date which is 36.6% of the total beneficiaries. The enterprises funded are sugar at 60%, 6.3% in livestock, 0.1% in grapes and the balance is divided into various crops included is grain, vegetables and citrus.

11. 2.3 The Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP) The Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme(CASP) aimed at providing post settlement support to the targeted beneficiaries of land reform and to other producers who have acquired land through private means and are, for example, engaged in value-adding enterprises domestically or involved in export.  The CASP framework pronounces that 70 per cent of the CASP infrastructure grants should be allocated to food production initiatives (crop and livestock production) in support of Fetsa Tlala programme. Since inception of the programme to 2014 the programme supported 473 542 beneficiaries and women accounted for 42%.

12. 2.4 LAND CARE The LandCare Programme, Deploys labour intensive mechanisms within its project implementation under the SoilCare, VeldCare and WaterCare themes. The labour intensiveness of the LandCare Programme is among the best in the country, being above 30% of the project allocations going to labour wages and other allocations used to advance the skills development of the beneficiaries. The programme remains the key driver in attaining green jobs within the framework of a green economy, thereby addressing the presidential outcome on job creation. The programme is targeting to achieve 874 000 job opportunities, which is equal to 3 800 Full-time Equivalents (FTEs), over four years (2013/14-2017/18) During the 2015/16 financial year, the programme is targeting 900 FTEs.

13. The FTEs targeted by the programme reflect almost 299 000 man days of a person working for the entire year. This presents huge job opportunities for many unemployed people, particularly youth, young girls included to have decent work for 230 days of the year and be paid in line with EPWP labour ministerial determination. The programme has a potential to create three times the number of jobs owing to its well-established community-based natural resource management and governance systems if additional funds could be added to this programme. The programme is currently among the best programmes in terms of EPWP, with an allocation of R115 million a year even outcompeting most of the multimillion rand programmes. In the 2014/15 financial year a total of 1152 women benefitted from the programme.

14. 2.5 Departmental statistics

15. 2.6 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME • Executive Development Programme (EDP) - To enhance the capacity of our leaders six (6) SMS members have enrolled for EDP. They are attending via the National School of Government which has contracted North West University. • Advanced Management Development programme - Fifteen (15) employees who are involved in managing and leading other employees towards the achievement of departmental objectives will be trained.

16. 2.7 BURSARIES, LEARNERSHIP, INTERNSHIP and ABET • Bursaries • - Ninety three (93) women were awarded bursaries to study during 2015/16 • Learnership - Eight (8) learners have enrolled for a Learnership in Animal production • Internship - Hundred and fifty two(152) woman are part of the Internship programme for 2015/16. • ABET - As a way of eradicating illiteracy seven (7) employees were encouraged to to participate in ABET.

17. One thousand nine hundred and sixty eight (1968) employees will attend short courses in order to address the skills gap in relation to their work which requires immediate intervention. 2.8 Short courses

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