OVERVIEWAfrica’s dominant agricultural sector makes the con-tinent a prime location for the establishment of agro-processing industries. Processing of food adds value to agriculture and edible animal products by grading standardization, packing and preserving of produce so that products could be formed in such a way that they can be sold in market of the country and abroad. This is vital since it creates employment and helps in import substitution, foreign currency earnings from exports of processed products coming from agriculture, forestry and fisheries. The agro processing value chain has high multiplier effects on the economy. Agro processing is known for its potential to spur growth and create jobs because of its strong backward linkage with the pri-mary agricultural sector. Agro processing is in essence manufacturing that processes raw materials and inter-mediate products derived from the agricultural sector. African governments and the private sectors need to develop concerted efforts and strategies to support agro processing ventures since they convert raw ma-terials into manufactured products and reduce the number of farmers practising at subsistence level. Agro processing in Africa is in the hands of the few conglom-erates and this effectively closes doors for aspiring small holder farmers and small business to benefit from the earnings that agro processing has to offer. Agro pro-cessing can succeed if farmers and agro processors were able to access the requisite funding to embark on sustainable ventures. Investment, ICT, access to markets as well establishing and enabling environment also play a crucial role in making agro processing a success story. In many developing countries especially in sub-Saharan Africa, communities are largely rural and agriculture is often the sole source of household income. They earn low incomes and unemployment is high. Agro processing offers an opportunity to reduce

• Discover the various funding opportunities which are available for aspiring small enterpris es and agro processing ventures. • Learn about the Agri Parks which the South Afri can government is establishing in all the nine provinces in a bid to support communities, smallholder farmers and emerging black farmers.• Network and mingle with funders, peers and decision makers in Southern Africa and even beyond.• Identify and understand the factors which al low agricultural commodity value chains to grow and thrive.• Find gaps within your operations and learn how to compete effectively in a highly com petitive environment. • Hear about the opportunities which are avail able within the agro processing sector. • Learn about the challenges which face small holder farmers in their quest to market and process their produce. • Learn valuable lessons from real life and suc cessful case studies in East and Southern Africa on running viable cooperatives and community projects.• The event will characterized by robust dia logue with leading experts around the chal lenges and opportunities for linking agriculture, processing and marketing.

WHY ATTEND ?

hunger and fight poverty. South Africa is establishing Agri Parks across the country. They seek to link produc-tion areas to support communities, smallholder farmers and emerging black farmers. The summit seeks to explore ways in which such pro-grams can be implemented sustainably and improve the standards of living of many who are struggling to make it.

Theme: Embracing Agro Processing and Harnessing Appropriate Technology as a Tool to Fight Unemployment, Poverty and Providing Food Security in Africa

Amabhubesi Conferencing Centre Randburg, Johannesburg

26th - 27th November 2015.

Agro Processing Africa Summit – 2015

• Directors and branch managers for agricultural produce retailing • Food processing companies• Heads for retail finance• Financiers and funding managers • Commodity brokers • Exporters and importers of agricultural produce, • Service providers and companies involved in contract farming and related market-linkage arrangements• Private sector value chain or multi-stakeholder associations• Farmer organizations and unions • Farming cooperatives members • Commodity group dealers• Civil society organizations actively involved in value chain work and policy makers. • Agribusiness Professionals • Academics and the media• Agricultural Researchers

Dr John Purchase is the CEO of the Agricultural Busi-ness Chamber (Agbiz) of South Africa. Previously he has been the CEO of Grain South Africa. He started his professional career as a scientist at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) where he worked 22 years in various research and managerial positions.

He was appointed to the Board of the Land & Agri-cultural Bank of South Africa in July 2012 and served a 3year term until July 2015. Dr Purchase served as the chairman of the CEO forum of the Department of Ag-riculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) from 2012‐ 2015. He was also appointed by the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to serve on the Reference Group that provided direction and oversight in the develop-ment of DAFF’s Integrated Growth and Development Plan (IGDP) and still serves on the AgriBEE Charter Council.

Dr Purchase serves on the Presidential Business Work-ing Group, BUSA, NEDLAC and is a Council member at the National Agricultural Marketing Council. Among other awards, he received the 2011 Alumnus of the Year award from the University of the Free State, as well as the 2012 South African Agriculturalist of the Year Award from the South African Agricultural Writers Association. In June 2013 he was also elected to the Board of the International Food and Agribusiness Man-agement Association (IFAMA), following the IFAMA World Forum held in Atlanta, USA, in June 2013. South Africa then also hosted the 2014 IFAMA World Forum and Symposium in Cape Town in June 2014. In 2014 he was also awarded honorary membership of FERTASA, their highest award for service excellence to South Af-rican agriculture.

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SPEAKERS

Dr Jasper Rees is the Group Executive, Research & In-novation Systems at the Agricultural Research Council. Dr Rees completed his undergraduate studies at Ox-ford University (UK) and went on to receive a DPhil in the area of human genetics there. After four years of postgraduate study in Boston, Massachusetts in the US, he returned to Oxford on a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship. In 1995 Dr Rees joined the Uni-versity of the Western Cape (UWC) as Professor of Bio-chemistry, working on cancer biology and cell death mechanisms. While there he became involved in plant biotechnology – which led to his initiation of a new pro-gramme in apple genetics in collaboration with the ARC. Under this programme, Dr Rees’ group used next generation sequencing technology to apply genom-ics technologies to a wide range of problems in plant genomics and pathology. He credits this success to the high-level recognition – both at a policy and institution-al level – of the urgency of building research in previ-ously disadvantaged institutions. Dr Rees moved to the ARC in May 2010.

DR JASPER REESGroup Executive Research & Innovation Systems Agricultural Research Council

JOHN L. PURCHASE (PH.D)CEO Agricultural Business Council, South

UNATI SPEIRS Chief Director Agro processing, Department of Trade and Industry.

YOUR CHAIRPERSON

Unati Speirs is the Chief Director: Agro processing at the Department of Trade and Industry. She completed her MSc. Agric in 2014 and studied for a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at the University of Fort Hare.

She obtained a law certificate from the University of Cape Town and a diploma in project management. She is currently working on her PhD with the University of South Africa. Unati Speirs started working as a project coordinator at Canon Collins Foundation Rural Development project, from then worked as teacher at a Calloway High School in the USA. She also worked at the East London Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) sector manager: agri business and was chosen as a United Nations delegate to represent South Africa in a UN investment promotion initiative. She started working for the South African government as the Department of Trade and Industry under the unit called Agro-pro-cessing Business Unit as a Director. Speirs is a mother and wife and added the Businesswomen’s Associa-tion (BWA) regional award (corporate category) to her string of accolades. She came back to South Africa and worked as a Regional Manager at the South Africa Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) for 6 years where she was in charge of the Eastern Cape. She pio-neered the Thuthuka project, which assists black stu-dents to become Chartered Accountants.

Brenda Lindiwe Mabaso-Chipeio is at the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone in Kwa-Zulu Natal. She is also a successful business entrepreneur as well as a motivational speaker. She has interest in invest-ment facilitation work and seeks to expand her busi-ness ventures to this industry. She then completed a Diploma in Commercial Teaching from Swaziland Col-lege of Technology, a Diploma in Small Business Man-agement from Damelin, and a Diploma in Paralegal Studies (Law) attained from the University of Johan-nesburg. Her most notable academic achievement is the attainment of a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Durham University Business School in 1999. Mabaso was a Business Development Manager at ELIDZ from September 2002 to December 2003. Bren-da is currently Coordinating and facilitating the estab-lishment of an agro processing facility in the Richards Bay IDZ and in Oman, where SA intends setting up a distribution facility.DR KEITH ROLAND DU PLESSIS

Manager for Project Development (Agro-Processing) in the Business Devel-opment Unit at the COEGA Development Corporation

BRENDA LINDIWE MABASO-CHIPEIO Richards Bay Industrial

SPEAKERS

PROfESSOR JOHAN VAN ROOYENDirector, Standard Bank Center for Agribusiness Development and Leaders, Stellenbosch University

Professor Johan van Rooyen is the director of the Stan-dard Bank Centre for Agribusiness Development and Leadership and a professor in agricultural economics at Stellenbosch University. He lectures agri-business strategy, agricultural and rural development at Stellen-bosch, Free State, Pretoria and the University of Ghent (Belgium). Prof van Rooyen possesses a D.Sc. in agri-cultural economics and management qualification (SMC) from IMD, Switzerland, 1991. He has published more than 170 peer group referred papers a number of books and presented over 100 papers at both local and international events. He received the Tomlinson medal for agricultural economics and is an NRF rat-ed scientist since 2000. Johan served on a number of boards dealing with agri-business. He is the president-elect and board member of the international food and agri-business and food industry management As-sociation (IFAMA). In his working career, he worked for the DBSA, the SA Wine Industry, University of Pretoria, Agri-business Chamber of South Africa.

Dr Keith Roland du Plessis is the Manager for Project De-velopment (Agro-Processing) in the Business Develop-ment Unit at the COEGA Development Corporation in Eastern Cape. He possesses a PhD degree in Microbi-ology from Stellenbosch University which he complet-ed in 2006. His other academic achievements include BSc Honors in Microbiology, MSc in Microbiology, an MPhil in Environmental Management and an MBA. Dr du Plessis is a registered natural scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SAC-NASP) and also holds a Prince2 Project Management Practitioner Certification, APMG International in Au-gust 2012. He is the author/co-author of a number of scientific and popular publications and has also been involved in several oral and poster presentations at na-tional and international conferences. Dr du Plessis has worked for the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) atInfruitec-Nietvoorbij as a Researcher. In 2006, he was promoted to the position of Senior Researcher, Soil- & Water Science Programme. As from October 2009 to March 2012 he was at ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij as a Programme Manager of the Post-Harvest & Wine Tech-nology Programme.

SPEAKERS

Neil de Smidt is one of the founders and a director of the Buhle Farmers’ Academy. He holds a B. Agric. Management degree through Stel-lenbosch University and has completed numerous short courses in the management field. He has over 28 years of experience in developing agriculture in South Afri-ca in various capacities. He has practised commercial farming on a full-time basis and smallholder farming on a part-time basis. As a pioneer in developing effective practical training programmes for these new and aspi-rant farmers, he has an extensive background in devel-oping agriculture in Africa involving policy formulation, institutional development, project management, curri-cula and training material development and the man-agement of farmer support services. He is a team man and provides good leadership and support to a staff of professional and administrative personnel and has a heart for people development in agriculture. For the last 16 years he has successfully guided all aspects of the establishment of the Academy into a nationally re-spected and effective capacity building institution de-livering verifiable results in the lives of new farmers. He is regularly invited to a range of conferences and consul-tations on issues relating to emerging farmer develop-ment and was recently involved in the programme of a consultative workshop on Agricultural Training and Edu-cation in South Africa held by the Royal Netherlands Embassy and has submitted a major project proposal in this regard.

Bertha Raphasha is the chief executive for Black Mint Holdings (Pty) Ltd a multi-sector investment conglomer-ate which consists of a newly established Agro-Process-ing unit, housing the Brand: Aqua-Fruit International, a beverage production entity which targets internation-al buyers through exporting channels. She was born in Ga-Rankuwa, North West and was raised in the neigh-bouring Mothotlung Township. Bertha enrolled at the University of Johannesburg and completed Training at Minjian University in Fuzhou, China. Returning to South Africa, she established the investment company and became the Founding Director at Black Mint holdings (Pty) Ltd. She was recently mentored at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in Braamfontein and is cur-rently studying towards a BAC in Consumer Science with the University of South Africa. Bertha is a young and versatile entrepreneur who is passionate about youth development, turning small businesses into big business and exploring the international market as it has endless opportunities. She is a registered exporter, importer and facilitates in growth initiatives to develop others. The brand has thus far been exposed to Indian consumers and will soon launch in South Africa. The conglomerate also has a Clothing and Textiles division which Modish Passé is a subsidiary thereof and a legal enterprise in Media and Broadcasting.

BERTHA RAPHASHAChief Executive OfficerBlack Mint Holdings (Pty) Ltd

VHUTSHILO NELWAMONDONedbank Business Banking

MR SETLAKALANE ALfRED MOLEPO Divisional ExecutiveSME & Rural DevelopmentNational Empowerment Fund

NEIL DE SMIDTDirectorBuhle Farmers’ Academy

Mr Setlakalane Alfred Molepo is the Divisional Execu-tive: SME & Rural Development at the National Empow-erment Fund. He is a Professional Engineer who during his early career years practiced as a Civil and Structural Engineer with a number of consulting firms in South Af-rica in a number of different roles ranging from design engineer to project engineer on a number of commer-cial and industrial projects. In 1999 he joined the Indus-trial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) until 2009. He was appointed to different positions in its business units. In 2005 and 2007 he headed the Risk

Capital Facility and the Metal Transport and Machinery Products Business Units respectively. At the culmination of his career, Mr Molepo was appointed as the Manag-ing Director of Khula Enterprise Finance Ltd (now sefa), a state-owned development finance institution (DFI) established in 1996 to facilitate access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SME). He later moved to the National Empowerment Fund (NEF), where he was appointed as the Divisional Executive of the SME and Rural Development from November 2010. His ca-reer spans more than a decade in the development finance sector.

Dr. Ludovick C. Manege is the Director of Industrial Research at the Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organization in Tanzania. The areas of research concentration include the Agro processing and Industrial Chemistry; Environment; Food and Bio Technologies. He has worked in the research area for the past fourteen years where he has managed to link the agriculture production with processing especial in the agro processing subsector and published a num-ber of technical reports and booklets in those fields. He is a holder of a PhD in Environment Analytical Chem-istry from Okayama University in Japan and Holds an MSc in the same field from Kochi University in Japan. He was a team leader in the implementation of the Business Sector Programme Support, a project whose component included the establishment of the Trace

SPEAKERSVhutshilo Nelwamondo is attached to Nedbank Busi-ness Banking, South Africa in Pretoria with expertise in Agricultural Economics. Vhutshilo Nelwamondo is a holder of an BSc in Agricultural Economics from the Uni-versity of Venda .She works at Nedbank Business Bank-ing Agriculture, where the business unit deals with the maintaining and improving of the quality of the credit portfolio and provides specialist input to credit risk to ensure proactive credit risk management. She also pro-vides specialist input on commodity marketing and risk mitigation strategies where applicable. This applies in both new business and existing business to obtain fi-nancial objectives by being actively involved with deal structuring, compiling feasibility and viability reports. She is accountable for Northwest and Gauteng regions.

Tafadzwa Mudhluli is the Quality Assurance Manager and Food Safety Management Systems Lead Auditor at Montic Dairy. Tafadzwa is currently studying for BSC in Biochemistry and Microbiology. He is a member of the South African Association for Food Science and Technology (SAAFoST) and has qualifications in Biologi-cal Technology, Certificate in Hazard Analysis Critical Control point in any Food Industry regarding of size, Certificate in Lead Auditing a Food Safety Manage-ment System. Montic Dairy processes and pack milk products from both small scale and large scale farm-ers. Tafadzwa leads supplier audits which includes the visiting of Dairy Farmers who supply Montic with raw milk. He also advises to the Dairy Farmers on ways of improvements to meet the statutory and required stan-dard for raw milk.

MR. QUINTON NAIDOO Chief Executive Officer, AfriGrow

MR TAfADzWA MUDHLULI Quality Assurance Manager, Montic Dairy (Pty)

Quinton began development in agriculture approxi-mately 12 years ago. His work focused on developing commercial farmers, creating sustainable livelihoods and effecting life changing interventions through agri-culture. Prior to setting up AfriGrow he was the Execu-tive Director of Food & Trees for Africa, a South African environmental and agricultural NGO. In commercial agriculture, he was the Head of Agribusiness for Lonrho

Projects South Africa which contracted growers throughout Africa to produce for its value chain which supplied numerous international retail giants across the globe. He was also a Director of Organic Farms Group an NGO, founded by the Old Mutual Founda-tion and which was involved in supporting emerging farmers in South Africa. Quinton currently works with numerous Government Departments, Private Sector & Community Organisations in implementation of vari-ous social and economic development programmes.

Italian by nationality, Arianna Baldo moved to South Africa in 2008 to work in sustainable trade. Arianna got involved with Fairtrade in South Africa since its very be-ginning and last January she became the Executive Director at Fairtrade Label South Africa. Arianna grad-uated with a BA degree in Business Public Relations in 2006, specialising in political marketing. She then stud-ied for two years in Germany, South Africa and India, and gained her MA degree in Global Studies in 2009, specialising in political economics and economic jus-tice. Arianna’s working experience includes tourism, logistics, sustainable trade and marketing.

ARIANNA BALDO Executive Director, Fairtrade Label South

DR. LUDOVICK C. MANEgE Director of Industrial Research at the Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organization in Tanzania

SPEAKERS

Dr. Siyabulela (Siya) Ntutela, Managing Director at In-tini Research & Consulting.

Siya has a PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Cape Town, SA. He spent part of his PhD on student-ship at The University of Sheffield in Chemistry and Re-spiratory Medicine Departments. He later did a post-doctoral fellowship as a Fogarty Fellow in molecular epidemiology & drug discovery at the Public Health Research Institute at the International Centre for Pub-lic Health, NJ, USA. While working at the Department of Science & Technology and later at CSIR, he gained experience in policy, contract man agement and project management. Siya was later in charge of in-novation management and technology commercial-ization while he was COO of PlantBio Trust Innovation Centre and later Snr GM: Operations at TIA. He later joined a start-up pharmaceutical company, iThemba Pharmaceuticals, as its CEO. In 2013 he left iThemba to focus on his businesses, starting Zanalytix Laboratories and spinning out Intini from MNBS.

He played or continues to play an innovation advi-sory role in many organisations such as Department of Health, National Research Foundation, the DTI and DST. He served in Boards of many start-ups in South Af-rica.

ability system (From Farm To Fork) for the agro process-ing sector in Tanzania. As a result of this programme, GS1 company was established in Tanzania, a company which offers Bar Codes and other e-commerce servic-es as a tool for product identification in the market.

Reginald Jacobus is a founder member and Chairper-son of the Friemersheim Multi-Purpose Primary Cooper-ative as well as the Friemersheim Agri Cluster. Reginald has worked for several years as a minister in different rural congregations. He completed a Bachelor’s De-gree in Theology at the University of the Western Cape. The focus of his ministry was the role of the Church in community development. Currently Reginald lives in Friemersheim, a rural community in the Eden District – Western Cape. Reginald also serves as Chairperson of the Friemersheim Development Association which rep-resents the community and focuses on development matters.

Chiedza Tsvakirai is a Trainee with the Agricultural Re-search Council, South Africa in Pretoria with expertise in Agricultural Economics. Ms C. Z. Tsvakirai is a holder of an MSc in Agricultural Economics from the University of Pretoria. She works at the Agricultural Research Coun-cil’s Economic Analysis Unit where her focus has been on estimating the influence of research on the agricul-tural industry’s growth and development. She is also involved in policy analysis and development, market analysis and, project monitoring and evaluation. Other areas of interest include: food security, international trade and climate change. Her work has featured at various local and international platforms.

REgINALD JACOBUS Chairperson: Friemersheim Multi-purpose Primary Cooperative

CHIEDzA TSVAKIRAI TRAINEE Agricultural Research Council, South Africa

DR SIYABULELA NTUTELA Managing Director, Intini Research & Consulting

JASON ENgLEDOE Head, Agribusiness Investment Pro-motion, Wesgro

Jason Engledoe is a Strategic Management BCOM graduate from the University of South Africa and has a post graduate certificate in Import and Export Man-agement from the University of Cape Town. He has been awarded first place in the United Nations Con-ference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) Entre-preneurship programme. He has lived, worked and is educated in four countries including South Africa, Germany, England and most recently, Taiwan. He is fluent in three languages, including English, Afrikaans and German and is conversant in Chinese Mandarin at an intermediate level. Jason has four years of ex-perience in Trade & Investment Promotion and is most passionate about the positive effects of an enabling environment for entrepreneurship on the South African economy.

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Rosemary studied at the University of Cape Town where she obtained a BSc (Hons) degree, then obtained her MSc degree at the University of Pretoria. After a few years working at SANBI, Rosemary joined the ARC-In-stitute for Tropical and Sub-tropical Crops in Nelspruit in 1982. One of the first projects she was responsible for was the cultivation and botany of guavas and devel-opment of alternative crops. For the past 16 years her role has been in development agriculture for resource poor farmers. She is currently responsible for the evalu-ation and development of alternative exotic crops as well as the development of herbs and essential oil crops as commercial crops, especially for resource-poor farmers. She is also responsible for the develop-ment of indigenous fruit species as commercial crops for South African resource-poor farmers involves the identification of species utilized in rural areas and the development of these species to benefit rural commu-nities through improved nutritional status, job creation and economic development.

In 1999 Rosemary became the project leader of the Integrated Rural Village Renewal Programme(IVRP) lo-cated in rural areas of the Eastern Cape and is a com-prehensive multi-year development programme for ru-ral villages that achieves high levels of self-organization and agricultural production and sustained economic activity. She is responsible for planning and managing all the technical aspects of the project – developing and modifying methodologies and systems to make them relevant to each unique situation and ensuring that the technology is relevant and appropriate and fulfils its role.

growing economy, plant sciences and Soil Sci ence. Dr. Mkhabela was also recently featured in Leadership SA Magazine June 2015 edition, profiling his career and areas of expertise.

Thulasizwe has extensive knowledge in agribusiness, value chain analysis and market identification and has assisted farmers throughout KZN to grow their farms, link them to value chain processes and ensure growth within the KZN economy. Linking Farmers to Mar-kets with the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) and lecturing in National & International Mar-ket Analysis and Econometrics at the University of Stel-lenbosch is one of his key competencies. He is a mem-ber of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA/LEVSA), the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association (SAMEA) African Econo-metrics Society (AES), African Association of Agricul-tural Econometrics (AAAE), and is a Referee/Reviewer for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics; Agrekon Journal; Experimental Agriculture; Studies in Economics (SEE) journals; South African Plant and Soil Journal and the Communications in Plant and Soil. He was also recently requested to present at the National Agriculture Development Indaba held in Durban on 9 September 2015 hosted by Elwazini Conferencing as well as the annual Rural Development Conference hosted by Milla SA in Durban 2015.

Rev. Faith Tovhakale Raduba: A seasoned executive with extensive exposure to leadership and manage-ment for over 33 years; Masters Degree in Leadership and Management with Logos University. Director of Agon Resource Centre, a skills training empowerment organization availing free life’s skills, business skills and technical skills based at Mogale City in Gauteng, and a Chief Executive Officer of Dunamis Chicken PTY (Ltd), Acting Deputy General Secretary of SALTA National Executive (South African Leisure & Tourism Associa-tion) in 2012, Gauteng SALTA Secretary 2013-2014, Ex-ecutive member of NAFU Gauteng (National African Farmer’s Union); Executive member of West Rand Pro-gressive Professionals Forum; member of Land Tenure Development Policy Committee. And involved in the Technical Task Team for Outcome 7 (REGULATION OF LAND REFORM POLICY)

ROSEMARY DU PREEz Researcher, ARC-Institute for Tropical & Tropical Crops

Thulasizwe is an Agricultural Economist with a PhD in Agricultural Economics which he received from the University of Stellenbosch. He is currently acting as the Chief Executive Officer for Agribusiness Development Agency. Thulasizwe has over 20 years of experience in the Agricultural and Land Reform sectors and has pub-lished and presented more than 34 papers on agricul-ture, economics, nutrition, the effect of HIV/AIDS on the

DR. THULASIzWE MKHABELA Chief Executive Officer (Acting) for Agribusiness Development Agency

REV fAITH TOVHAKALE RADUBA Executive member, National African Farmer’s Union Gauteng

concepts, there is no universally accepted definition of the term, although it is meant to refer to the whole range of goods and services which are necessary for an agricultural product to move from the farm to the final customer or consumer.

• What is an agri-food value chain?• Supply Chains or Value Chains?• Linking competitiveness to agri-food value chain management?• How to deal with competitive agri-food value chains: - Mapping and analysis? - Competitive strategies? - Governance/management?Speaker: Professor Johan van Rooyen, Director, Stan-dard Bank Centre for Agribusiness Development and Leadership, Stellenbosch University

11:00 – 11:30 CASE STUDY: BUHLE fARMERS ACADEMY Buhle Farmers’ Academy provides high quality, ac-credited practical training to new and aspiring farmers through hands-on Competency Based Learning prin-ciples. Courses include Livestock, Crop, vegetables and Poultry production plus a range of specialist short courses. The purpose of Buhle’s training and support is to empower new farmers to start up their own profit-able farming activities themselves – with confidence. Trainee farmers are able to practise how to apply the knowledge gained. After training Buhle provides and facilitates support to graduates to help them get up and running on their own farms. Farmers are also linked to organisations, markets and input suppliers who can give further specialist support.Speaker: Neil de Smidt Director, Buhle Farmers’ Acad-emy

11:30 – 12:00 SUCCESS STORIES ON AgRO PROCESSINg IN SOUTH AfRICA The food processing sector is widely regarded as hav-ing the potential to generate economic growth, en-trepreneurial opportunities and employment. In de-veloping countries the interest in agro-processing is associated with its potential for generating demand amongst smallholder farmers, upgrading primary pro-duction through small scale food processing, and also improving food price stability and food security. In 1997 the Food and Agriculture Organisation’s annual State of Food and Agriculture report argued that “be-cause of its high degree of interdependence with for

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08:30 – 08:35 Chairperson’s opening remarks

08:35 – 09:05 KEY NOTE ADDRESS 1: AgRI PARKS AS TOOLS fOR AgRO PROCESSINg The Agri Parks are expected to be linked directly to the identified production areas that support communities, smallholder farmers and emerging black farmers. The initiative was projected to ensure job creation, and would generate revenue and empower women and youth. 7 priority districts had been identified across the country for the construction of agri-parks and R2-billion had been made available for the agri-park initiative. The presentation will also cover the incentives which the DTI provides to black industrialists. Among other things it will look at the following:• Industrial Development Financial Assistance (In centives)• Special Economic Zones (SEZs)• Benefits of SEZs• Existing SEZ in South Africa Speaker: Unathi Chief Director, Agro processing, The Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa

09:05 – 09:30AgRO PROCESSINg STRATEgIC SUSTAINABLE INTERVEN-TIONS fOR THE DISADVANTAgED IN SOUTH AfRICA

09:30 – 10: 00 fAIRTRADE CERTIfICATION PROCESSFairtrade certification is a business model that both smallholder (organised in cooperatives) and agribusi-ness can adopt to improve their sustainability score and access local and international sustainable markets.Speaker: Arianna Baldo, Executive Director, Fairtrade Label South Africa

10:00 – 10:15MIDMORNINg REfRESHMENTS

10:15 – 11:00 TOWARDS COMPETITIVE AgRI-fOOD VALUE CHAINS The agricultural value chain concept has been used since the beginning of the millennium, mainly by those working in agricultural development in the developed world. Value chains in agriculture comprise a set of ac-tors who conduct a linked sequence of value-adding activities involved in bringing a product from its raw material stage to the final consumer. As in many such

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ward and backward activities, agro-industry can play a very important role in accelerating economic activity. The FAO also pointed out that agro-processing was suit-ed to developing country contexts due to the fact that processing plants are not always scale dependent. To-day we notice number of emerging black-owned sus-tatinable agro-processing companies in South Africa and having already established international business relationships. Below, I introduce to you just a few…Speaker: Bertha Raphasha, Chief Executive Officer, Black Mint Holdings (Pty) Ltd

12:00 – 12:30 CASE STUDY: fRIEMERSHEIM MULTI PURPOSE PRIMARY COOPERATIVE LTDFriemersheim, a small rural village at the foot of the sce-nic Outeniqua Mountains, suffers from high unemploy-ment and poverty. In an effort to address these needs Friemersheim Multi Purpose Primary Cooperative Ltd (FMPC) was born and registered in February 2011. The main aim of FMPC is to initiate sustainable economic activities that will positively impact the lives of the peo-ple of Friemersheim.• Organization of the cooperative• Bee keeping and honey processing.• How do you process the honey• Challenges are facing the Friemersheim Multi Purpose Primary Cooperative Ltd.Speaker: Reginald Jacobus, Director, Friemersheim Multi Purpose Primary Cooperative Ltd

12:30 – 13:00 THE ROLE Of AgRO PROCESSINg IN SOUTH AfRICA Agro processing refers to the subset of manufacturing that processes raw materials and intermediate products derived from the agricultural sector. Agro processing industry thus means transforming products originating from agriculture, forestry and fisheries. A very large part of agricultural production undergoes some degree of transformation between harvesting and final use. The industries that use agricultural, fishery and forest prod-ucts as raw materials comprise a very varied group. They range from simple preservation (such as sun dry-ing) and operations closely related to harvesting to the production, by modern, capital-intensive methods, of such articles as textiles, pulp and paper.Speaker: Quinton Naidoo, Chief Executive Officer, Afri-Grow Development.

13:00 - 14:00 NETWORKINg OVER LUNCH

14:00 – 14:45TRAININg AND MENTORINg Of fARMERS ON fOOD SAfETY STANDARDS Training, mentoring and Implementation of required Agricultural and Food Safety Standards from the farm-ers, processors and distributors will fight unemployment and provide food security in Africa. Speaker: Mr Tafadzwa Mudhluli, Quality Assurance Manager and Food Safety Management Systems Lead Auditor, Montic Dairy

14:45 – 15:30 CHALLENgES fACED BY AfRICAN fARMERSThe challenges faced by African farmers in their quest to farm and embark on value addition of their pro-duce: The rationale for promoting agro processing in-dustry in Africa.Speaker: Dr. Manege Ludovick C, Director of Industrial Research, Tanzania Industrial Research and Develop-ment Organization Dar es Salaam.

15:30 – 16:00 THE ROLE Of THE SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT AgENCY IN UPLIfTINg SMALL BUSINESSES. The Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) was established in December 2004 as an agency under the Department of Trade and Industry. Seda provides business development and support services for small enterprises through its national network in partnership with other role players in the small enterprise support. Seda also implements programmes targeted to busi-ness development in areas prioritised by the Govern-ment.Speaker: Kwathi Koka, Sector Manager: Agri-Business, Mining and Mineral Beneficiation

16:00 – 16:30 DEVELOPMENT Of AN INTEgRATED VILLAgE RENEWAL MODEL fOR RURAL AREAS. The aim of the programme is to assist in the transforma-tion of poverty into wealth in some of the worst afflict-ed areas of South Africa and to develop economically viable, self-sustaining homesteads by building upon and supplementing resources that exist in these com-munities. Agriculture forms the cornerstone for devel-opment of the economy of the village concomitant with necessary basic and support services. There are currently 49 villages participating who have planted more than 140 000 tree crops. Integrated farming sys-tems are utilized with low external inputs which opti-mizes the management and use of on-farm producti-

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on inputs. Forty of the villages, which already havesmall farmers producing surpluses, have been put on a com-mercialization path where lead farmers are identified and form a primary marketing and supply co-opera-tive. The development of Mini Agri-Centres has been initiated. Many of the crops are well suited to value adding and the development and refinement of prod-ucts that can be manufactured by rural communities from locally grown produce is a major focus. The plant-ing of these high value crops has acted as a catalyst to initiate development of the economy of the rural village and to create a village renewal system which focuses sharply on promoting greater self-reliance by addressing their own needs and problems. .Speaker: Rosemary du Preez, Researcher, ARC-Institute for Tropical & Tropical Crops

16:30 – 16:45 Chairperson’s closing remarks

16:45 END Of DAY ONE

DAY TWO: 27 NOVEMBER

09:00 – 09:05Chairperson recap

09:05 – 09:30 KEY NOTE ADDRESS 2The challenges faced by African farmers in their quest to farm and embark on value addition of their produce: the rationale for promoting agro processing industry in Africa.Speaker: Brenda Mabaso, Research and Marketing In-telligence Manager, Business Development unit, Rich-ards Bay Industrial Development Zone.

09:30 – 10: 00 THE BENEfITS PPPsQuantifying the benefits of public-private research funding in agro-processing sector. The case of peach industry. Speaker: Chiedza Tsvakai, Agricultural Research Council

10:00 – 10:15MIDMORNINg REfRESHMENTS

10:15 – 11:00 THE NATIONAL EMPOWERMENT fUND – PROVIDINg fUNDINg fOR BLACK OWNED INDUSTRIALISTS IN SOUTH AfRICAN The NEF anticipates future funding and investment requirements to help black individuals, communities and businesses achieve each element of the Codes of Good Practice. These include a focus on preferential procurement, broadening the reach of black equity ownership, transformation in management and staff and preventing the dilution of black shareholding. The NEF differentiates itself not only with a focused man-date for BB-BEE, but by also assuming a predominantly equity-based risk to maximise the Empowerment Divi-dend. Reward should balance the risk with the ap-plication of sound commercial decisions to support national priorities and government policy such as the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA) or targeted investments through the Department of Trade and Industry’s (the dti’s) Indus-trial Policy Framework (IPF). The work of the NEF there-fore straddles and complements other Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) by allowing the organisations to work in close collaboration in the promotion of BB-BEE. With them, the NEF can enhance other DFIs and their mandates by sharing its specialist sector expertise and knowledge of BB-BEE.• How does the NEF derive its mandate?• Vision and mandate of the NEF• How the NEF funds black business• Examples of successful cases funded by the NEF.Speaker: Mr Setlakalane Alfred Molepo [Divisional Ex-ecutive: SME & Rural Development, National Empow-erment Fund

11:00 – 12:00 ECONOMIC POTENTIALSRealising economic potential of agricultural coopera-tives through agro processingSpeaker: Siyabulela (Siya) Ntutela, PhD, MD: Intini Re-search & Consulting (Pty) Ltd

12:00 – 13:00 SMALL ENTERPRISE fUNDINg AgENCY’S fUNDINg OP-TIONS fOR fARMERS.Introduction of SEFA on its mandate, vision and values of the Small Enterprise Finance Agency Products and services of SEFA1. SEFA direct lending products

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2. Wholesale Lending Products • Cooperatives • Micro-Finance Intermediaries • Specialised Funds • Retail Financial Intermediaries • Credit Guarantee Scheme 3. The Land Reform Empowerment Facility (LRF) Of all the wholesale lending products we single out the Land Reform Empowerment Facility as it is relevant and ancillary to this summit. The LREF is a wholesale financing facility through which SEFA lends money to commercial banks and other reputable agricultural lenders for on-lending to land reform beneficiaries The aim of LREF is therefore to broaden the control, management and ownership by black South African citizens in land-based high-value income generating assets in the agricultural sector.Speaker: Mr George Mothoa, Agricultural Specialist, Agriculture Portfolio Manager, Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SOC) Ltd

13:00 - 14:00 NETWORKINg OVER LUNCH

14:00 – 14:30 INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND AgRI VALUE CHAINS IN THE EASTERN CAPE Agro processing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) offers many opportunities. This is more so in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Given the central place of the sector in many of the region’s economies, building on agricul-ture in SSA along the whole value chain can bring ben-efits in many respects and kick-start the development of broader manufacturing. Apart from generating jobs, it can contribute to develop the skills, services and in-frastructure needed for wider industrial development. Opportunities can be found in manufacture of fertiliser, seed and chemicals. There are several other opportuni-ties downstream.Speaker: Dr Keith du Plessis, Manager: Project Develop-ment (Agro-Processing), Coega Development Corpo-ration

14:30 - 15:00OPPORTUNITIES IN AgROPROCESSINg / AgRIBUSINESS IN KWAzULU-NATALSpeaker: Dr. Thulasizwe Mkhabela, Chief Executive Of-ficer (Acting) for Agribusiness Development Agency

15:00 – 16:00 THE STATUS Of AgRIBEE SECTOR CODE AND IMPACT Of NEW B-BBEE Legislation on Agribusiness At the moment, enterprises have the option (as per Article 3.3 of Code Series 000: Framework for measuring Broad-based Black Eco-nomic Empowerment) of measuring compliance us-ing either the generic Codes of Good Practice or the Sector Code.Speaker: Dr John Purchase, Chief Executive, Agricul-tural Business Council, South Africa

16:00 – 16:30ATTRACTINg, fACILITATINg AND RETAININg fDI fOR AgROPROCESSINgWesgro is the official destination marketing, trade and investment promotion agency of the Western Cape Province, in the country of South Africa. We are man-dated by Government to attract, facilitate and retain foreign and domestic direct investment into priority sectors, including but not limited to Agriprocessing, Hotel, Real Estate development, Niche Engineering & Manufacturing, Renewable Energy, ICT, Financial Ser-vices in Cape Town and its surrounding regions. Wesgro also aims to promote and market Cape Town and the Western Cape as a competitive business destination within national and international arenas. We strive to facilitate the link between business and government decision makers, while ensuring that we provide ser-vice excellence in all our business support functions“. The presentation will provide a snapshot of the West-ern Cape Economy and touch on aspects of Trade & Investment initiatives of the agency.Speaker: Jason Engledoe, Head: Agribusiness Invest-ment Promotion, Wesgro

16:30 – 16:45 CHAIRPERSON’S CLOSINg REMARKS

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