Chris Williams will engage with commercial agricultural businesses, communal property institutions and a range of stakeholders to facilitate possible partnership agreements to develop commercially sustainable agri-enterprises on underutilized agricultural lands. Mpumalanga PALS will also focus on partnering with DALRRD to find solutions for dysfunctional land reform properties and high potential state owned land in the province.
Besides his role as PALS regional coordinator, Chris is also the CEO for Mobile Agri Skills, Development and Training (NPC) (MASDT), an NGO that supports emerging farmers in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Chris previously worked as a chief planner in the Department for Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) between 1995 and 2000, before assuming the directorship of TRAC-MP, a land rights NGO working to promote security of tenure amongst farm dweller communities in the Mpumalanga province between 2000 and 2010. He also undertakes private development planning, land reform facilitation services and is regularly called upon in dispute resolution processes on commercial farming areas.
Chris holds a BA Hons from Rhodes University and an MSC in development planning from the University of the Witwatersrand.
For enquiries contact Chris at: Canary Walk Business Park, Bester Street North, Nelspruit, 1200, office@mpupals.co.za, 082 829 3443 / 086 756 6017 (Fax)