Despite drought and horrible economic times for Namibia, there is still much to be done to survive until the next rainy season. The one activity thriving on the bad times seems to be the charcoal industry which is growing exponentially due to the massive market uptake of the very popular charcoal derived from Namibian invader…
A case for a biomass-based economy in Namibia
NAMIBIA is currently facing an uphill economic battle, having recently slipped into a recession, coupled with a staggering unemployment rate of over 30%, which is exacerbated further by low international commodity prices, affecting some of our largest national income earners from the mining sector. So, what if we told you that Namibia is sitting on…
Business delegation on the development of Biomass industrial park in Namibia
The GIZ/MAWF Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project and collaboration with the Institute of Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) organised a business delegation from the European biomass sector who visited Namibia in the past days. The aim of their tour in the central North of the country was to discover the tremendous economic potential springing…
SADC Industrialisation week
The Ministry of Trade, Industrialisation and SME Development will be hosting the 3rd Annual SADC Industrialisation Week (SIW) which will be on 30 July 2018 to Wednesday to 1 August 2018 at the Safari Court Hotel and Conference Centre in Windhoek, Namibia. The SIW is an annual public-private engagement platform aimed at fostering new opportunities for intra-African trade and…