Elite land grabbing in Namibian communal areas and its impact on subsistence farmers’ livelihoods
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Date
2011
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Large scale land acquisitions by
foreign investors in Africa for
agricultural purposes continue to
capture attention worldwide. In
recent years Namibia has received
some proposals from multi-national
agricultural corporations to develop
large scale irrigation projects,
mainly in Namibia’s water rich
north-eastern regions However, to
date none of these proposed large
scale projects have materialised.
In 2010 two proposed large scale
agricultural projects in the northeastern
communal areas of Namibia
did not come to fruition. Plans to
develop a 10 000ha commercial
crop production farm within the
Bwabwata National Park were
dropped after an environmental
assessment showed that it was not
feasible for the developer, Demeter,
to continue with the project.
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Elite land, Namibian, Farmers, Subsistence, Crop production
Citation
Odendaal, W. (2011). Elite land grabbing in Namibian communal areas and its impact on subsistence farmers’ livelihoods. Policy Brief 33, Bellville: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape