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...
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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.
Water and Land First: What the N$682.3m Hydrogen Research Grant Must Settle
In an arid country, the first thing a hydrogen study has to weigh is water. The research grant’s real subject is a scarce resource.
Taxing the Farm Gate: What an Autonomous Collector Means for Namibian Farming
Much of farming trades informally and in cash. A sharper collector changes the calculus for the sector hardest to tax.