Namibia: Climate Change, Drought, Cattle Put Pressure On San

17 December 2020

Members of Namibia's indigenous San communities say a combination of prolonged drought - driven by climate change, unrestrained grazing and deforestation on their lands - is leading to conflict between them and their more dominant, pastoralist neighbours.

We know from a range of scholarly and scientific reports that climate change in southern Africa is not a future event - it is already happening and its effects can already be seen in our region.

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