Agriculture, future scenarios for Southern Africa : Country briefing, Namibia

As a policy research institute dedicated to the effective communication of its findings, the Institute engages decision-makers in government, business, NGOs and other sectors in the development and implementation of policies that are simultaneously beneficial to the global economy, the global environment and to social well-being. [...] The government has implemented and continues to implement a set of measures to counteract the effects of climate change and rising food prices on the national food security situation of Namibia. [...] The only perennial rivers form the borders with Angola and Zambia in the north and north-east, Botswana in the north- east and South Africa in the south. [...] The mill prices for the 2009 harvest of maize have been discussed recently, and the influence of the SAFEX price differential is still under negotiation and will be resolved during the year. [...] The establishment of the EMU may be a belated reaction to the drought of the 1930s, when about 25 per cent of all subsistence farmers in the north of Namibia starved to death.