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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...

In September 2020, the Government of Namibia, through the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) committed to develop her National Plan of Action for Small-Scale Fisheries (NPOA-SSF) through implementing the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). The one-and-a-half-year long...

Tsumkwe, Namibia – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently facilitated a two-day training workshop on poultry production to a group of youth in Tsumkwe, a small settlement mainly inhabited by the San ethnic minority in eastern Namibia. The training formed part of the technical assistance availed by...

Conrad Lifatila, a small-scale livestock farmer in Zambezi region, never thought that his cattle would be alive by now. Critically infected by the ghastly Food and Mouth Disease (FMD) that had engulfed his area, his cattle were getting thinner by the day as grazing became an almost impossible task due...