Namibia: National Vision Needed to Reduce Poverty - FAO

12 October 2015

Windhoek — A national vision is needed of how agriculture and social protection can gradually move people out of poverty and hunger. This national vision and commitment, supported by permanent domestic resource mobilisation, must support coordinated action at the national and subnational levels.

These findings are contained in the latest State of Food and Agriculture Report of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and comes at a time when some 570 000 Namibians had to be thrown a lifeline in terms of food security via government's food and drought relief programme.

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