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Harnessing Innovation: Collaborative Project Empowers Namibia’s Agricultural Sector For Food Security
By:Staff Writer The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the University of Maryland (UMD)/NASA Harvest, will collaborate on an agricultural project in Namibia. With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, the organisations aim to harness advanced technologies and methodologies to enhance yield estimates, ultimately informing […]
SMEs To Get Option To Exchange Shares For Capital Soon
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus As part of the national Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Financing Strategy, the country will soon launch its own Venture Capital Fund, that will be exchanging capital for equity in high-growth SMEs. The Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) announced last week that it is in the process of developing and establishing a Venture […]
Protecting Namibia’s Blue Wealth: Expanding Protected Areas in Marine and Coastal Zones
By:Justicia Shipena Namibia has declared more than 10% of its coastal and marine ecosystems as protected areas, said deputy Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Heather Sibungo. She said this during the commemoration of International Day for Biological Diversityat Gibeon in the Hardap region over the weekend. Every year on 22 May, International Day is […]
Fueling The Recovery: Oil And Gas SMEs Find Support In Namibia’s Loan Scheme
By:Justicia Shipena In Namibia, the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Economic Recovery Loan Scheme has extended its support to an array of industries, including the crucial oil and gas sector. Acknowledging the significance of this sector in the country’s economy, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) has confirmed that SMEs operating within the oil and gas […]
City Authorities Ensure Power Stability, Residents Safe From Disconnection
By:Justicia Shipena The City of Windhoek (CoW) has taken decisive action to assure its residents that no one will face power disconnection. The CoW’s recent assurance of uninterrupted power supply to its residents comes at a time when the municipality itself, specifically the areas of Groot Aub and Brakwater, have been listed among the customers […]
Nam Advised to Formulate Mining in Wildlife-Concentrated Areas
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The recent three-day National Conference on Human Wildlife Conflict Management has recommended that rural communities take ownership of conservancies and reduce control by non-members. This is included in the summary of the resolutions that were made during the country’s first National Conference on Human Wildlife Conflict Management deliberations. Minister Of Environment, Forestry and […]
Nam Sources Pork Meat From EU Markets
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Meat Board of Namibia said for the first three months of 2023, 68.5% of Namibia pork need was serviced by imports, inclusive of offal and processed products. Tthree-month assessment has revealed, showing the agri opportunities the country possesses for utilization by entrepreneurs. Due to the huge domestic demand, local retailers went […]
The Untapped Potential: Addressing Namibia’s High Percentage Of Unprocessed Gemstone Exports
By: Justicia Shipena Trade Minister Lucia Ipumbu has expressed sadness over the fact that more than 90% of gemstones leave the country in their unprocessed form, depriving the nation of the economic benefits that could derive from value addition. Ipumbu made the remarks when officiating the graduation ceremony of the gemstones students for the year […]
Former Saga Seafood Fishermen Still Waiting On Ministry For Work
By: Martin Johannes About 210 former employees of Saga Seafoods are appealing to government to hasten the process of securing them jobs by giving out quotas to other companies that are in operation in order to employ them. Saga Seafood is the Samherji-owned company embroiled in the Fishrot scandal. It closed its operations in Namibia […]
Schlettwein Mulls Over Dream Of The Noordoewer/Vioolsdrift Dam
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus If all goes well, and feasibility studies find it viable, the //Kharas region will have a fourth dam to capture more of the transboundary-shared water as distributed by the lower part of the Orange River, near Noordoewer. The plan was revealed by the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reforms, Carl Schlettwein […]