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In a bid to take stock of the current food security situation in Namibia, heads of the two United Nations (UN) sister agencies represented in Namibia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in early March 2021 embarked on...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Namibia and the National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) recently held a kick-start meeting for the "Development of the National Bio-economy Strategy" project spearheaded by the two agencies. The meeting, held virtually, sought to reaffirm the commitment by...

The participatory video (PV) approach is considered as an effective tool to engage and mobilise groups or communities to take action to solve their own problems, or to communicate their needs and ideas to decision-makers. It is by this principle that the GEF-7 Sustainable Forest Management Impact Program on Dryland Sustainable...

“Our animals were as thin as straws of grass but now they are looking very fat and healthy,” said Agnes Tengovandu-Tjindo, of Otjozondjou, a small village in Erongo, Western Namibia. New systems of hydroponic fodder production, like the one recently set up in Otjozondjou, are part of the solution to...

The Government of Namibia has embarked upon the process of developing a National Plan of Action (NPOA) in support of implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines).  The process commenced with the establishment of a National Task Force...