Windhoek — Twelve years after Namibia committed itself to an attempt to recognise the need to rapidly accelerate access to, affordability of, and incentives to use fertilisers together with agricultural practice such as Conservation Agriculture (CA) to stimulate sustainable pro-poor productivity growth in Africa, CA has not reaped the expected benefits.
This, despite government launching an N$96 million Comprehensive Conservation Agriculture Programme (CCAP) in March 2015 that is to run until 2019. The German International Development Cooperation (GIZ), and the Namibian University of Science and Technology (NUST) are partners in the programme. This year, CA is again under pressure as the rains stay away and more than half of Namibia's 2.3 million residents living in the Northern Communal Areas (NCAs) rely on their crops.
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