PROGRAMME 4

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PROGRAMME 4

• FORESTRY

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• BROAD BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
• Draft Forest Sector charter initiated with
  working groups for sub-sectors
• Challenges
• New round of negotiations required once new codes
  released from DTI (expected end October 2006)
• Funding of Forest Enterprise Development

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• FOREST ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
• 39 bee-keeping projects running countrywide
• 5 community owned ornamental and medicinal plant
  nurseries supported
• Provided training in business management,
  marketing and technical aspects of enterprise
  training to beekeepers and medicinal nursery
  people
• R1.6m spent on supplying material,
  infrastructure, and training funded by DANIDA
• R2m funding secured through NDA for beekeeping.
  None spent yet.
• Enterprise development reflected in PGDS/P of
  Limpopo and EC
• CHALLENGES
• Additional funding especially for Charter
  commitments
• Integration into IDPs

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• SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF PLANTATIONS
• 4 workshops held to assist small growers and
  assist with licence applications for
  afforestation
• Research project initiated to assess small
  growers livelihoods and choices
• Linked growers with buyers in Vhembe district
• Facilitated linking of land reform beneficiaries
  with forestry management company in Mpumalanga
  TWK
• Firewood harvesters in indigenous forests in Port
  St Johns area organised to ensure sustainability
  and commercialisation of enterprise
• DWAF plantations
• TUP, fire and theft many times industry
  equivalent
• 5575 ha burned
• TUP 7291 ha (reduction from 8416 ha) 15
  (industry norm is 3-4)

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• CHALLENGES
• Lack of forest management skills
• Lack of direct control and co-ordination over the
  estates from national office
• Compliance with environmental legislative
  requirements

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• Strategy to combat long term timber supply
  shortages
• Report submitted at year end
• (have held workshop with stakeholders to
  interrogate report and obtain views)
• Challenges
• Mitigating market failures in long rotation
  timber
• Leverage SAFCOL resource (KLF 30 of countrys
  sawtimber)
• Protection/ expansion of remaining resource
• Review of W Cape exit strategy

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• PAYMENT OF LEASE RENTALS
• Payment of lease rentals to land reform
  beneficiaries not achieved
• Challenges
• Identification of beneficiaries by DLA
• Negative impacts on forests (fires)
• Leveraging R70m for development
• LAND NOT SUITABLE FOR FORESTRY DE-PROCLAIMED
• Land no longer required for forestry in WC and
  Mpumalanga de-proclaimed and transferred to DPW

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• BLYDE EXIT STRATEGY IMPLEMENTED
• Target Implement exit according to
  strategy
• Achieved Exit being implemented
• Challenges Manage job losses
• TRANSFER OF MANZENGWENYA MBAZWANA
• Target Transfer of estates to land claimants
• Achieved Not achieved
• Challenges Obtain agreement with tribal
  authority and communities
• Maintain plantations effectively until
  transfer

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• FORESTRY PROFILE RAISED
• Achieved New website in place
• Call centre well resourced on forestry
• Large impact during Arbor Week
• Forest and woodlands symposium well attended
  (national and international delegates)
• Produced Forestry DVD in Resource Centre on
  website
• Engaged with schools and tertiary institutions

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• NATIONAL FIRE DANGER RATING SYSTEM
• Target Launch NFDRS
• Achieved System launched but not live
• Challenges Technical problems with system
• Co-operation with SAWS

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• INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CO-OPERATION
• UNFF attended Africa group led by SA
• African Forest Law Enforcement and Governance
  initiative supported
• Congo Basin Partnership supported
• Management of cross border fires not achieved due
  to non-availability of neighbouring countries for
  cross border fires strategies
• FAO international code of best practice for
  planted forests co-drafted
• World Forests Report supported
• Russian and Chinese agreements signed
• CBD report submitted

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• AFFORESTATION PROMOTED
• Forestry in PGDP/S of Limpopo and EC
• Licensing process partially streamlined within
  DWAF
• Challenges
• Funding especially for longer rotation crops
  (longer investment horizon)
• Forestry needs to engage more actively with LAACs
• WOOD ENERGY STRATEGY
• Support to DME in development of national energy
  strategy not achieved
• Challenges
• Engaging with DME on strategy
• Ensuring sustainability of rapidly declining
  resource which remains important even where there
  is access to electricity, because of cost