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Enhancing Small Scale Farmers Productivity through Increased Application of Sustainable Farming Practices - TCP/NAM/3701

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 8

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The subsistence-based smallholder farming sector of Namibia is highly vulnerable to climate change and variability. The expansion of cultivated areas to compensate for low yields, the exploitation of low-nutrient soils without restoration of soil fertility, changing climatic patterns (including low and erratic rainfall), and the lack of well-adapted technologies have been identified as major challenges for communal rain-fed crop producers. As such, there is a need to improve farming practices and related ecological approaches within rain-fed cropping systems in order to counter and reverse land degradation, as well as to adapt to changing climatic conditions, all while ensuring national food security. The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform (MAWLR), with technical assistance from FAO, therefore implemented this project, which aimed to scale up the adoption of the Comprehensive Conservation Agriculture Programme (CCAP) in Namibia. Project activities were implemented across five regions, namely Kunene, Ohangwena, Omusati, Oshana and Oshikoto.

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