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  1. Library Resource
    December, 2018

    There has been rapid growth in urban populations in Namibia (Pendleton et al, 2014). This growth is amongst predominantly amongst less educated, poorer migrants from rural areas in search of opportunities in urban areas. From the data available the estimated shortfall of either titled land or houses appears to be above 150 000 and increasing at about 11 000 per year (Weber, 2017). This trend of urbanisation is occurring not only in Namibia but across the world, particularly now in developing countries.

  2. Library Resource
    December, 2018

    Ancestral land refers to ‘land of ancestors’. That is the land occupied by ones’ forebearers for generations and left something behind of value for current and future generations. There are usually contestations as to which ancestors the land

    belongs because of the history of internal migration and of displacements by stronger nations (tribes).

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2018
    Namibia

    Small-scale farmers in north-central Namibia face numerous challenges, ranging from low crop yields, high rainfall variability and land degradation which is threatening the long-term productivity of the land, to social changes that are reducing the work force available for farming. This paper aims to assess existing land use practices (LUPs) and to determine their relationship to ecosystem services (ES). As agriculture (crop and livestock farming) is the dominant land use in northern Namibia, it is the main driver influencing environmental services and will be in the focus here. We suggest

  4. Library Resource
    December, 2018

    Namibia is moving towards an urbanised country. This is illustrated by the fact that at independence Namibia was only 28% urbanized by 2011 urbanization has already grown to 42% and current projections are that by 2020 urbanization would by 66% and more than 70% by 2030. As the urban population is growing the need for serviced land and housing is also growing. As Namibia has failed to respond through appropriate strategies to facilitate this change in the human geography of the country it resulted in the growth of poorly serviced informal settlements.

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2018

    How does one build up an analysis? And how does one create the link between the individual partial-analyses

    in a problem-oriented project work? These are the two main issues that this booklet gives an overview of.

    This document is a presentation of a way in which an analysis, a sub-project and a project can be structured.

  6. Library Resource
    May, 2018

    The current paper derives from work conducted in the context of the Revision of the Mass Housing Development

    Programme (MHDP) that the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) commissioned to the Integrated

    Land Management Institute (ILMI) at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). The paper

    contains only publicly-available information and was prepared for public dissemination of issues related to the

    work undertaken for the Ministry in the context of this project.

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2018

    The current paper derives from work conducted in the context of the Revision of the Mass Housing Development

    Programme (MHDP) that the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) commissioned to the Integrated

    Land Management Institute (ILMI) at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). The paper contains

    only publicly-available information and was prepared for public dissemination of issues related to the work

    undertaken for the Ministry in the context of this project. More information about this project can be found on

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2018

    include a trajectory of Namibia’s socio-spatial development for the reader to engage with my work. The term ‘socio-spatial’ is to stress the spatial dimension within social processes. To have simply left the term ‘spatial’ would have missed the point of spatial production as a social process. In other words, space per se is not what is at stake here, but rather the dialectic relationship of how space is produced and at the same time it transforms those who inhabit it. Therefore, what I would like to encompass is not merely town planning schemes, houses, or public spaces, but also spatial so

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2018
    Namibia

    This document outlines some pertinent questions regarding urbanization in Namibia, provides central policy recommendations and identifies relevant research gaps to guide the policy debate on urban land reform as part of the 2nd National Land Conference scheduled for 1-5 October 2018.

  10. Library Resource
    December, 2018

    Communal land is one of the land tenure systems in Namibia, the other being freehold land tenure system. At independence in 1990,Namibia resolved to retain communal land on the basis that majority of the population derived their livelihoods from communal land.Notwithstanding the increasing urban population in the country since independence, the majority of the Namibian population still lives in the communal areas, and many of the urban-based population continue to have close relations in rural areas.

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