Affected community member showing an area earmarked for a large scale agricultural project, Bagani Village, Namibia.
PLAAS | 2015
by Maarit Thiem , Theodor Muduva
Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign and local investors for agriculture, forestry and wildlife purposes, among others, remain a major challenge for African governments.
In recent years, the Namibian government through various ministries received proposals from multinational agribusiness to develop large-scale agricultural irrigation projects. However, only a few of these proposed largescale projects have materialised or have been operationalised.