**5.6.2 Land and Agrarian Reform Programme (LARP)**

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Money is also spent on training and capacity building and marketing. Farmers apply on a yearly basis and grants are awarded for a five year period (DAFF, 2011a). The CASP is therefore a potentially very valuable support programme as it is meant to supply emerging

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Fig. 5. Conceptualisation of transsectorality of reform programmes and support

The South African Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) monitors the success of the impact of the CASP by checking whether the infrastructure that has been promised has been completed, and whether farmers are using it for the right purpose. While it is important to monitor whether infrastructure is being provided, no impact assessment studies have been conducted to establish the success of the CASP (DAFF, 2011a). When the former Department of Agriculture and the former Department of Land Affairs (now the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform) fell under one minister, it was easier to ensure that the land reform financial support programmes of both departments were coordinated. This has become more difficult now that the two competencies are no longer governed by the same minister (DRDLR, 2011a). Therefore, there used to be a greater level of transsectorality between the agriculture support specific and land reform specific

To date, the success of implementation of the CASP programme has been uneven, although most provincial farmer support programmes have been expanded (Greenberg, 2010). It

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The government has attempted to integrate the CASP (the agricultural support programme) with the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) programme (which focuses primarily on land reform) in the form of the Land and Agrarian Reform Programme (LARP), which was established in 2008 (Greenberg, 2010). The LARP is meant to offer collaboration on delivery and collaboration on land reform and agricultural support "to accelerate the rate and sustainability of transformation through aligned and joint action of all involved stakeholders". The idea is to have "one stop shop" service centres in close proximity to farms and beneficiaries (LARP, 2008). Implementation of the LARP has been slow and to date there is little evidence of any significant change in practice (Greenberg, 2010). This programme again demonstrates an attempt at coordinating different sectors – agriculture and land – and services from these sectors to serve beneficiaries of land reform with a large focus on stakeholder involvement.
