Follow the capital far enough and it ends in ammonia and fresh water, the two things arid farming needs most.
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Farming
Weaners and Lithium: Why Namibia’s Raw-Export Habit Reaches the Cattle Pen
Raw ore and live cattle leave Namibia before the value is made. One ban raises the question for both.
Navigating FMD Zones: Authorities Outline Permitted Goods
The government clarified in June 2023 which goods may cross foot-and-mouth disease zones, with digital permits proposed to streamline compliance for farmers and traders.
Green Ammonia and Water: What the Hyphen Project Means for Namibian Food Systems
Ammonia is a fertiliser molecule before it is a fuel. This project makes it with seawater in the driest of places.
From Barley to Apples: How the Heineken-NBL Deal Reaches Back to the Farm
Behind the brands sit fields of barley, apples and grapes. The merger is also a decision about where they are grown.
Two Harvests: Jonker-1X and the Benguela Fishery Now Share One Sea
The water an oil province wants to drill is the same water that already feeds and employs the coast.
Green Ammonia’s Other Market: The EU-Namibia Pact and the Fertiliser Value Chain
Most of the hydrogen becomes ammonia, and ammonia is fertiliser. The pact quietly touches every planted hectare.
Fertiliser from Wind: The Farming Dividend Hidden in Namibia’s Hydrogen Strategy
The export headline is ammonia for ships. The quieter prize is ammonia for fields, and water for a desert that has neither to spare.
Forty Hectares of Sun: What Omburu Asks of Namibia’s Dry Erongo Land
Solar farms compete for the same commodity as grazing – open ground and sunlight. Omburu is a land-use choice as much as an energy one.