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Landcare opportunities in Namibia and at bigger picture
By: Emily MutotaBeating Famine Conference, Lilongwe, April 2015
Past and present initiatives
20 decades, SLM programmes implemented.oCBNRM: Communal Conservancies and
community forestso Dryland and desertification Programmes
Short-term impacts—activities stop as projects end!
Incentives driven, and mainly top-down approach (and not bottom-up). No Ownership!
Need to adapt landcare
Double the efforto Bottom-up , holistic and inter-disciplinary approach
o Mobilise communities to ‘’read the land’’ and find local-based solutions
o Empower an d attitude and behavior transformation
Landcare offer such opportunities: evidence from over 15 countries, where its implemented.
Great lessons, particulaly from S. Africa
Example to benefit from landcare1. Fire Management
o Large part of the country suffer from fire ( appro. is 6.919 million ha, and representing 7.4% of Namibia total land surface).
o Threat : agriculture and tourism.
“Approximately 30% (26 Million ha) area is subjected to densed bushes.
Estimated loss of N$700 mio per year to beef market (de Klerk, 2004).
2. Bush Encroashment
Realisation
Lobbying key ministries
Integrate into ministerial planning
Synergies for Convections, SDGs,
Change in Biodiversity
Land degeneration/
Desertificaton
Climate Change
Landcare in Big Picture
Necessity for collective global focus on International Year of Landcare (IYLC)
Feasibility study in 2008, proposing establishment of IYLC
http://www.unulrt.is/static/fellows/document/emily-1-.pdf
A year to focus on exchange, awareness, land literacy and bottom-up solutions
Complement global SDG’s, Conventions and other years.
IYLC is feasible, BUT require resources ( time, financialsupport)