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Land reform is an important political and economic topic in Namibia. It consists of two different strategies: resettlement, and transfer of commercially viable agricultural land. It consists of two different strategies: resettlement, and transfer of commercially viable agricultural land.
The Ministry of Land Reform was a government ministry of Namibia, with headquarters in Windhoek.It was created at Namibian independence in 1990 as Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, [1] renamed Ministry of Lands and Resettlement in 2005, and got its last name change in 2015.
Affirmative Repositioning (AR) is a leftist political movement in Namibia mainly focused on land reform, youth empowerment and social reform.Founded in 2014 by Job Amupanda, Dimbulukeni Nauyoma and George Kambala, the AR uses social media platforms to mobilise residents to apply for erven (small residential land titles) from municipalities.
The Flexible Land Tenure System in Namibia: Integrating Urban land Rights into the National Land Reform Programme, Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Washington, 2015 Middleton, J., von Carlowitz, L., Becker, H.-G.: Land Management as a Vital Basis for the Implementation of Land Reform in Namibia, zfv – Zeitschrift für ...
Land Matters is a 2009 documentary film directed by Thorsten Schütte [1] that examines the impact of land reform in Namibia on the farmer communities. The film features interviews with farmers and farm workers from different regions and backgrounds, as well as experts and activists on the land issue.
Only 2% of Namibia's land receives sufficient rainfall to grow crops. As all inland rivers are ephemeral, irrigation is only possible in the valleys of the border rivers Oranje, Kunene, and Okavango, [2] and also at the Hardap Irrigation Scheme. As of 2020, the Minister of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform (MAWLR) is Calle Schlettwein.
The Landless People's Movement was formed after Bernadus Swartbooi, deputy minister of land reform, was fired by the late former President Hage Geingob in December 2016 after refusing to apologise to then Land Reform Minister Utoni Nujoma, whom he accused of resettling people from other regions into the south of the country ahead of the Nama.
Carl-Hermann Gustav "Calle" Schlettwein (born 13 June 1954) is a Namibian politician who has served in the country's cabinet since 2012. In March 2020, he was appointed the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform after serving as the Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2020 and previously as the Minister of Trade and Industry from 2012 to 2015.