2024-w640 - 04 April 2024

Nthako Sam Matiase to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development:

Whether her department conducted any study to determine full details of tangible changes in the levels of (a) household income and (b) employment as a result of land restitution comparing pre and post transfer period; if not, why not; if so; what are the relevant details of the findings?

Reply from the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development: on 4 Apr 2024

(a) (b) No, The Land Restitution Evaluation Study (LRES) did not address this question. The primary objective of the study was to measure the impact of restitution awards on the beneficiaries’ well-being. The conference that the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights (CRLR), is organising in April 2024 will discuss this question.

BACKGROUND

  1. In 2013/14 it was agreed that an Impact Evaluation study be ...
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2023-w1441 - 17 May 2023

Mothusi Kenneth Montwedi to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development:

Whether her department quantified the financial losses suffered by farmers as a result of natural disasters over the past three years; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what (a) was the extent of the specified financial losses and (b) steps has her department taken to support farmers who suffered such losses?

Reply from the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development: on 17 May 2023

a) The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) has not quantified the losses but relied on the comprehensive information submitted by the affected provinces. The extent of losses reported for the past three years since 2020/21 is approximately R1 054 000 000 attributed to floods and drought combined. This amount excludes fires and small incidents that are not reported.

b) DALRRD supported the affected ...

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2020-w432 - 06 April 2020

Noko Phineas Masipa to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development:

In view of the fact that only two of the nine export protocol targets were met, what are the details of the (a) targets that were (i) not met and (ii) met and (b) plan(s) to correct the situation and ensure that the targets are met?NW613E

Reply from the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development: on 6 Apr 2020

In terms of the quarterly performance targets in the 2019/20 Annual Performance Plan (APP), 9 export protocols were implemented during Quarter 1, but were reported to be still in progress pending validation of reported data at the regional offices (WC, KZN, PE) by the unit responsible for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). As at to date, validation of the 9 export protocols by both M&E ...

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