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This regional assessment documents experiences on ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) and its linkages with biodiversity in Eastern and Southern Africa. It highlights key entry points and opportunities to catalyse actions for Eco-DRR that

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Two pilot projects are currently being carried out under the Support to Debushing Project. The results of pioneer activities to prove that bush-based feed works especially during droughts as emergency feed and also as supplement feed have been remarkable and in many cases bush based animal fodder has proven to be the only viable option for farmers during drought periods.
New Era Publications Corporation
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As part of the Windhoek Declaration, which includes the Strategic Framework to combat drought in Africa that was adopted last Thursday, the conference opted to seek other ways of funding drought emergencies.
Namibian, the
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This article explores the role of National Meteorological and Hydrologic Services (NMHSs) in providing early warnings for severe weather events such as as cyclones and flash floods. While the NMHS is generally the authority solely responsible for issuing

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This document serves to outline El Niño’s major implications on food and nutrition security in the southern Africa region and highlights immediate and long-term preparedness requirements. Further, it provides country profiles to give contextual national

Photo by Flickr user Grape farms of Aussenkehr, Namibia CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbdodane/14885130178
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Changes within the agricultural sector such as the number of bilateral, regional and multilateral developments as well as current and expected impacts of climate change and agricultural land reform affecting the performance of the sector has prompted the revision of the 1995 Namibia National Agricultural Policy, reports the Namibia Economist...
Namibia Economist
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This document presents the main results of a project commissioned to evaluate the available information and the current technical and administrative situation regarding the recent floods in the northern regions of Namibia. It particularly focuses on the

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Grazing and livelihoods have rapidly deteriorated as the dry spell worsens in many parts of northern Namibia, reports New Era. 'The community in Kunene is receiving grazing training, where they are taught to move to other areas to rest the areas which they have grazed already. However when they move from the place other people move to the area,' said Chairman of the Kunene Regional Council Dudu Murorua...
New Era Publications Corporation

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