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Review of Conservation Agriculture – Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change in Northern Namibia
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
More than half of the 2.1 million people of Namibia live in the northern regions of the country. Furthermore, more than two thirds of the population depends on subsistence agriculture for their...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Analysis of agriculture in countries’ climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies finds: Most Parties to the UNFCCC include agriculture in their mitigation targets (80%) and adaptation...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) is a set of practices related to cropping, fertilizers, organic resources and other amendments on smallholder farms to increase production and input use...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Site-Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) provides guidance relevantto the context of farmers’ fields.SSNM maintains or enhances crop yields, while providing savings for farmers through more...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Coffee-Banana Itercropping is a climate-smart agricultural practice based on indigenous knowledge. It increases farmer incomes, improves resilience to climatic impacts, and sequesters higher amounts...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
The CCARDESA 2015 Work plan devoted attention to driving activities initiated in previous years, particularly 2014.The operational momentum of activities was built up throughout 2014 with the...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Falling prices of cotton, normally referred to as ‘‘white gold’’ is not good news for small- scale farmers in Eastern province, as the crop has been a source of...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Tanzania, an East African country, is endowed with important land and water resources that have a high agricultural potential. Agriculture is a key sector of Tanzania’s economy, as it accounts...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
In two weeks’ time, the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) in Paris, France. Namibia has...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Agricultural biodiversity (or agrobiodiversity) includes all components of biological diversity of relevance to food and agriculture, and all components of biological diversity that constitute the...
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
The impacts of climate change are reducing the capacity of natural resources to sustain the demand of the increasing population.
Date of Publication: Nov 2015
Agriculture is one of the sectors affected adversely by climate change. Attaining food security and development goals at both household and national levels requires deployment of efficient and...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
The study focused on the NDM as a first step:Mixed research approach to collect quanDtaDve and qualitaDve data through interviews conducted with small organisaDons (15 NGOs, 8 CBOs and 7 governmental...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Scientific trials on farms on Namibia-specific Conservation Agriculture or Tillage (NSCA) over the last ten years have been revolutionising rain fed grain crop yields to the extent that Namibia could...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Countries vary in their institutional technical and financial abilities to prepare for climate change in agriculture and to balance food security, adaptation, and mitigation goals.Indicators for...
Date of Publication: Oct 2015
Namibia needs 4% agricultural growth per year to meet the food requirements for the growing population