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Windhoek - Addressing food insecurity and mitigating the effects of climate change through conservation agriculture Agriculture in Namibia needs to adopt climate resilient practises to mitigate impacts of weather variabilities, such as drought and flooding that are increasing in the country. Conservation agriculture (CA) is a climate smart agriculture approach...

Windhoek, Namibia -  FAO and NSA are collaborating to develop Namibia’s Strategic Plan for Agricultural and Rural Statistics (SPARS) as the country prepares to conduct its agriculture census.   If Namibia wishes to transform her agricultural sector and realise its full potential to help achieve food and nutrition security, a shift towards timely...

Namibia validates her National Bioeconomy Strategy for the period 2023 – 2028 as it gears towards innovation, conservation, and the sustainable utilization of its biological resources. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the National Commission for Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) recently hosted the...

Katima Mulilo, Namibia - Thirteen Community Conservancies (CCs) in the Kavango-Zambezi (KaZa) landscape in northeast Namibia are currently benefiting from various interventions stemming from the Sustainable Wildlife Management Community Conservancy Project (SWM-CC) under the SWM Programme launched last year. The SWM Programme, in collaboration with the Government of Namibia, through the...

Mariental, Namibia - A group of 16 participants comprising mainly of women and youth from the small farming settlement of Witkrans in the Hardap region recently received training on poultry farming as part of FAO’s poultry scheme project. The two-day training, facilitated by agricultural extension personnel within the Ministry of Agriculture,...