Government must remove stumbling blocks to effective policy implementation

To the keen observer, South Africa’s agricultural policies have remained unchanged, with emerging ones recycling the same fundamental ideas.

The reality is that we have been caught up in a vicious cycle of ideation, where policymakers and government officials are trapped in a process of overindulging in policy discussions without implementing them. Yet new ideas can only emerge if the existing ones are fully tested.

There is broad consensus that, over the