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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,...

Namibia – The Brown Locust outbreaks in Southern Africa have not captured headlines in the same way as the desert locust in the Horn of Africa, and the Arabian peninsula has done. However, the pest remains a daunting challenge in regions in southern Namibia. The country is battling the fourth...