"drought"
in Committee Meetings
1077 matches
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14 Sep 2018
Department, Land Bank & ARC Quarter 1 performances: hearing; with Minister
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... through direct channels, approval of R334m for drought relief, 131 famers under 35 years that have been ...
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14 Nov 2011
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) on 1st Quarter 2011 Performance
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... June 2011 and other meetings for the National Drought Task Team and National Agro-Meteorological Committee ...
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15 Nov 2011
White Paper on Climate Change: public hearings: SAFCEI, BUSA, Off the Ground, Fractual, and Agro-Organics
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... strategy. It was possible to have growth despite drought as was the case with a West Coast farmer who had ... managed to increase the growth of its crops despite drought through rationing water and introducing efficient ...
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15 Apr 2003
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Conference
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... opportunity to make that choice;-the realisation of drought resistance;-allerginicity needs to be taked into ...
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23 Oct 2013
Agricultural Research Council and Ncera Farms on their Annual Reports for 2012/13
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... livestock. Challenges included the prevailing drought in the Eastern Cape, and plant and animal diseases ...
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06 Mar 2012
Professor Amman, Biotechnology Scientist, Doctor N H Obokor CEO AfricaBio, Kingston Mashingaidze Manager Agricultural Research Council, COREY Pickelsimer US Embassy
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... list of drought-prone countries across the world. ARC was concentrating on development of drought tolerant ... about 14 million people were food-insecure, and drought was the main factor limiting maize production. ...
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01 Mar 2016
2016 Budget Review Analysis by Parliamentary Budget Office & Financial and Fiscal Commission
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... while domestically, South Africa was experiencing drought conditions. There had been an increase in maize ...
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11 Aug 2009
Department of Water & Environmental Affairs Strategic Plan 2009-2014 briefing
Committee Meeting | Water and Sanitation | National Assembly
... there were two small isolated areas experiencing drought, while surrounding areas were still receiving good ...
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22 Sep 2016
Fetsa Tlala Food Production initiative & conditional grants: Provincial Departments reporting Day 2
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... Programme (CASP), Ilima Letsema, Fetsa Tlala, drought relief programmes (detailing the number of functional ... why they had not reported anything specific on drought support, and a full report on boreholes was requested ...
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16 Aug 2016
KwaZulu-Natal on its 2015/16 unaudited Annual Report; Land Bank board appointments: deliberations
Committee Meeting | NCOP Finance | National Council of Provinces
... as they had not been budgeted for. Due to the drought, the Agriculture and Rural Development Department’s ... deficit budget due to budget cuts on account of drought relief, among others. The province would maintain ...
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16 Sep 2016
Grain Imports; GrainSA and SA Poultry Association tariff application outcomes: ITAC briefing
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... always high, but had escalated in 2015 due to the drought, and it was currently estimated that the shortage ... increase in 2015 and 2016 specifically due to the drought. In the past when maize was self-sufficient, its ...
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28 May 2013
Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Strategic & Annual Performance Plans 2013; Committee Report on Departments Strategic Plans 2013
Committee Meeting | NCOP Cooperative Governance & Public Administration | National Council of Provinces
... Bill (DMA). A risk and vulnerability profile for drought would be developed by 31 March 2014. The DMA Bill ...
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13 May 2015
Sugar Association regarding alternative energy sources briefing; Committee Reports on Transfer Pricing & Trade and Industry Budget
Committee Meeting | Trade, Industry and Competition | National Assembly
... cane on the ground such as this year when a major drought was experienced, at least half of those mills were ...
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15 Feb 2017
World Bank on its Report on the South African Economy
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... agriculture has been volatile due to the 2015/16 drought, although there has been a slight recovery. On ...
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01 Mar 2017
Committee Report on International Astronautical Conference
Committee Meeting | Trade, Industry and Competition | National Assembly
... the northern part of the country and the current drought in the Western Cape could be identified before ...
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07 Mar 2017
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on its Quarter 3 performance, with Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Agriculture | National Assembly
... to National Treasury for compliance. Regarding drought interventions, National Treasury made an amount ...
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28 Nov 2017
Climate Finance Colloquium
Committee Meeting | Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment | National Assembly
... had grown at a record rate in 2016. The ongoing drought, with water shortages in the Western Cape, remained ...
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28 Feb 2011
Flooding Disaster Management: December 2010/ January 2011: Update by Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... level of water storage and this coincided with drought areas. Dam levels shown gave actual percentages ... situated adjacent to the rivers. There was a drought alert in the Eastern Cape as dam levels were very ...
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07 Mar 2011
Bulk Infrastructure: Department of Cooperative Governance update; Consideration of Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill [B22-2010] in presence of Deputy Minister
Committee Meeting | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs | National Assembly
... address important issues such as water availability, drought and degradation of infrastructure. Water was an ...
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17 May 2017
Appropriation Bill 2017: comments by Financial and Fiscal Commission
Committee Meeting | Standing Committee on Appropriations | National Assembly
... the MTSF goals have been hampered by the recent drought which caused major damage to infrastructure and ...