{"id":223048,"date":"2026-02-07T00:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-venaani-proposes-desert-farming-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:17:37","slug":"namibia-venaani-proposes-desert-farming-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-venaani-proposes-desert-farming-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Venaani Proposes Desert Farming Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani has proposed desert farming as a strategy to address agricultural issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Venaani made this revelation on Thursday during the National Assembly session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;This House recognises the urgent need to develop a sustainable and resilient agricultural sector in Namibia, particularly through desert farming, as a strategic response to climate change, food insecurity and unemployment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Venaani said desert farming, supported by modern irrigation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani has proposed desert farming as a strategy to address agricultural issues. Venaani made this revelation on Thursday during the National Assembly session. &#8220;This House recognises the urgent need to develop a sustainable and resilient agricultural sector in Namibia, particularly through desert farming, as a strategic response to climate change, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,10117,4309,4706,724,257,7995,254,6986,23955],"class_list":["post-223048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-desert","tag-farming","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-proposes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-venaani"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}