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FAO Namibia Newsletter March 2023

FAO Namibia Newsletter March 2023 / Issue #1
Namibia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Informe
Legal report on the ecosystem approach to fisheries in Namibia

An analysis of the ecosystem approach to fisheries in selected national policy and legal instruments of Namibia
Legislating for an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) is complex, due to the holistic nature of EAF involving multiple factors that underpin the social, economic, environmental, and institutional aspects of fisheries sustainability. These factors include ecosystems integration, risks, inter-sectoral collaboration, research, participatory processes, monitoring, control, surveillance, and enforcement, among others....
Namibia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Estudio de caso
“I found this group of women with a unique business model. And I thought it was wonderful that the very same oil we ate at home could also […] provide income streams in areas such as cosmetics.” 

Martha Negumbo -- Namibia
  Marula has long been a staple in Namibian homes, where both the nut and the fruit have a reputation for being healthy and the nut oil is popular for skin care and cooking. In recent years, international companies, too, have caught on to the oil – and with demand booming,...
Namibia
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

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Making the market work for nature

How biocredits can protect biodiversity and reduce poverty
Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a key role in helping to reverse this loss. This paper explores the potential of using a novel approach to promote biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity credits or ‘biocredits’ are coherent units of measurement that track...
Costa Rica - Germany - Malaysia - Namibia - South Africa - United States of America
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development

Prácticas
Management strategies for new or lightly exploited fisheries

Management strategies for new or lightly exploited fisheries allow for an improved enhancement of food security or long-term employment security, or export income in developing countries. These management practices are detailed through the methodologies used. Acknowledgement comments and the fact that the technology is an output from the Renewable Natural...
Namibia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

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Policy recommendations based on lessons learned from eleven African countries

Measures that empower young agri-entrepreneurs should be a key component of a sustainable development-centred investment promotion strategy. The very realization of future generations’ food security, the sustainable transformation of food systems and the combat against unemployment and distress migration all depend upon the successful implementation of strategies that make the...
Côte d'Ivoire - Guinea - Malawi - Mali - Mauritania - Mozambique - Namibia - Senegal - South Africa - Tunisia - Uganda
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Informe
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems

Engaging young women and men in an agricultural sector characterized by an ageing labour force is crucial to ensure sustainable food security, reduce youth unemployment and combat unplanned migration. By harnessing their innovative potential, utilizing new technologies and techniques and taking advantage of new opportunities in emerging value chains, young...
Côte d'Ivoire - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Estudio de caso
Constructing markets for agroecology

An analysis of diverse options for marketing products from agroecology
The purpose of this study is to explore whether and how products from agroecological production systems are being valued in markets. The study is based on a meta-analysis of 12 case studies (Benin, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda), mainly from...
Benin - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - China - Colombia - Ecuador - France - Kazakhstan - Mozambique - Namibia - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Documento técnico
Transboundary threats to food and nutrition security in Southern Africa. Issue 1. April- June 2017

The Bulletin highlights outbreaks of transboundary pests and diseases that have the potential to impact food and nutrition security in Southern Africa. It also captures recently concluded and upcoming events that are being organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and stakeholders to improve the capacities...
Angola - Botswana - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Artículo de blog
Fall army worm outbreak, a blow to prospects of recovery for southern Africa

New pest poses novel threat to region reeling from effects of consecutive droughts
A fall armyworm outbreak, the first emergence of the pest in southern Africa, is causing considerable crop damage in some countries. If the pest damage aggravates, it could dampen prospects for good crop harvests that is anticipated in the current farming season. Maize, a staple food in the region has...
Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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WFP Regional El Niño Situation Report

El Niño conditions have caused the lowest recorded rainfall between October and December across many regions of Southern Africa in at least 35 years. Short-term forecasts from January to March indicate the high probability of continuing below-normal rainfall in the south, signaling that this could become one of the worst...
Angola - Botswana - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Lesotho - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Eswatini - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2016 - World Food Programme (WFP)

Declaración
SADC consultative meeting on preparedness and response to the impact of El Niño on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition security in Southern Africa

The SADC Consultative Meeting on Preparedness and Response to the Impact of the 2015/16 El Niño on Agriculture and Food and Nutrition Security in Southern Africa was held from 25th to 26th February 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
Angola - Botswana - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Eswatini - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2016 - Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Artículo de blog
Transforming smallholder farms into profitable businesses

Building an enterprise takes many different tasks, from stepping into the shoes of potential customers to designing products or services, to running a marketing campaign. This was one of the key messages for women farmers at SACAU’s Agro-preneurship training in Johannesburg this month. The three-day training from 27th – 29th September...
Botswana - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - Seychelles - South Africa - Zimbabwe
2016 - Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)

Libro
Innovative markets for sustainable agriculture

How innovations in market institutions encourage sustainable agriculture in developing countries
The key issues that this volume addresses are innovations in organizational and institutional arrangements that have enabled the creation of local markets for sustainably farmed agricultural products or, rather, “institutional innovations”. Institutional innovations can be described as new rules and forms of interactions. They help redefine sustainable practices locally and...
Benin - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - India - Indonesia - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Namibia - Nigeria - Philippines - Thailand - Trinidad and Tobago - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Parte de un libro
Land Reform Programme

This chapter discusses land issues in southern Africa in general, and in Zimbabwe in particular. At independence most African states with settler white farmers inherited a skewed land distribution in favour of the white commercial farmers. Countries like Namibia and South Africa, among others, embarked on some land redistribution programmes...
Namibia - South Africa - Zimbabwe
2015 - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)

Artículo de blog
UN Agencies respond to growing food insecurity in southern Africa

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are expanding their operations in response to growing food insecurity as a result of poor harvests across much of southern Africa. There will be an estimated 27.4 million food-insecure people in the region...
Angola - Botswana - Madagascar - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Documento/nota de orientación
Gender and rural development brief

East and Southern Africa
The countries of East and Southern Africa have made major commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, and they are starting to pay off. A number of countries have achieved substantial progress towards gender parity in primary school enrolment. Nearly all countries have adopted quota systems requiring women’s participation...
Angola - Botswana - Burundi - Comoros - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Rwanda - Seychelles - South Africa - South Sudan - Eswatini - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

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The 2015-2016 El Niño event

Expected impact on food security and main response scenarios in East and Southern Africa
El Niño is a periodic climate phenomenon defined by anomalously warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean which affect local weather worldwide and generally leads to increased drought risk at global level. In 2015, since July a strong El Niño is being observed with increasing...
Angola - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Malawi - Namibia - Somalia - South Africa - South Sudan - Zimbabwe
2015 - European Commission

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Commercialisation of land in Namibia's communal land areas

A critical look at potential irrigation projects in Kavango East and Zambezi Regions
Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign and local investors for agriculture, forestry and wildlife purposes, among others, remain a major challenge for African governments. The Namibian government through various ministries received proposals from multinational agribusiness to develop large-scale agricultural irrigation projects.This study is aimed at investigating land acquisitions by private...
Namibia
2015 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Libro
Best-bet technologies for addressing climate change and variability in Eastern and Central Africa

This publication contains of information on technologies and innovation for addressing climate change and variability in Eastern and Central Africa. They were compiled from national agricultural research system (NARS) and International research centers working in the ASARECA region. The information was submitted and discussed at a regional conference on “Climate...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Namibia - Sudan - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2014 - Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
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