The export headline is ammonia for ships. The quieter prize is ammonia for fields, and water for a desert that has neither to spare.
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Farming
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.
How Israel became the Most Advanced Country in Agriculture
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, early settlers who decided to settle in the lands of Israel faced a huge challenge: how to farm in conditions of sweltering heat and minimal rainfall. The land was catastrophically barren, but the desire to make this area...
Mining the Benguela Seabed: What a Bigger Diamond Fleet Means for the Ocean
The richest fishing water in the region and the richest diamond field share one seabed. A larger vessel raises the stakes on sharing it.
The Nitrogen Fertilizers Gap: Russian Sanctions, Africa, and Global Food Economy
Sanctions, or talk of sanctions, toward Russia create opportunities for the African Agricultural Economy, especially fertilizer production amongst other things. Throwing threats and executing them are two different things, and what lies between must be an impact...
Oil Above the Fishery: Venus and the Benguela Catch Now Share One Sea
The same waters that may hold Namibia’s oil already feed its second-largest export sector. Two food-and-fuel economies now overlap.
Fertiliser from Air: What Cleanergy’s Ammonia Phase Could Mean for Farms
The pilot’s headline is trucks and trains. Its quieter second phase points at something farmers care about more – the price of fertiliser.
Two Economies, One Current: Graff-1 and the Benguela Waters Namibia Already Fishes
The oil frontier and the fishing grounds share the same cold, productive sea. Only one of them feeds people today.
Fertiliser From Wind: What Hyphen’s Green Ammonia Means for Namibian Farms
Strip away the energy talk and Hyphen is partly a fertiliser project, aimed at a commodity Namibia now imports.