Election 2019: Land reform, agriculture and climate

In this series, we look at what the manifestos of political parties say on certain key issues. ALL PEOPLE'S PARTY (APP)• Compensation for the German genocide and the resettlement of the Ovaherero, Nama and Damara. • New technologies for the rejuvenation of abandoned agriculture projects.• Community trust should own between 45% and 50% of green schemes. • Promotion of poultry and aquaculture industries. • World-class abattoirs for excluded communities.• Promoting green energy, preventing soil, water, vegetation and air degradation. CONGRESS OF DEMOCRATS (CoD)• Access to commercial agricultural land.• Urban land for everyone.• One-off land purchase allowance for everyone. LANDLESS PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT (LPM)• Radical land and agricultural reform to eradicate poverty and hunger and create jobs.• Every claim for ancestral land must be considered independently.• 30 days' notice to absent landowners for expropriation without compensation.• One farmer, one farm.• Expropriation in the public interest.• Restoring agriculture as an economic driver in rural areas.• Better support to small farmers.• Massive investments in science and technology that will promote agriculture.• N$1 billion a year to the Ministry of Climate Change and Green Energy. NAMIBIA ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS (NEFF)• Expropriate land without compensation and redistribute it. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (NDP)• Revisit original land boundaries and return stolen land.• Traditional leaders must control communal land.• Free seed and irrigation systems to municipal farmers near rivers.• Grants for municipal cooperatives.• Agricultural factories in all regions, towns and settlements.• Agricultural universities, colleges and training centres, as well as the provision of equipment, materials and capital. NATIONAL UNITY DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATION (NUDO)• The recognition of ancestral land rights.• No land ownership by foreigners.• Equal distribution of state land.• Climate-smart agriculture.• Incineration plants and green schemes in the Namib Desert.• Climate-smart cities and towns. POPULAR DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (PDM)• Expropriation with fair compensation. • Negotiations on ancestral land.• Security of tenure and ownership of productive land use.• Land ownership by foreigners or the possession of multiple farms must be managed by taxes and levies.• Provide unproductive state-owned land to farmers with potential.• Focused support for modern agriculture and other inequalities initiatives.• More frequent audits of relocated farmers' infrastructure.• More cooperatives and agricultural producer organisations.• Desalination plants along the coast. RALLY FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS (RDP)• Faster, more efficient and non-corrupt land reform.• A dedicated fund for relocation, land acquisition, infrastructure development, mentoring and training.• A clean and safe environment free of pollution.• Fight the destruction of the ecosystem and forests. REPUBLICAN PARTY (RP)• Help people who lost land in colonial times.• Remove the racial nature of the land conversation.• Food security must come first. SWANU• A socialist government will expropriate land without compensation and control all natural resources.• An end to foreign and private ownership that promotes poverty and hardship.• Renewable energy sources to take centre stage.• Coastal desalination plants to supply the entire country with water. SWAPO• Speed up amendments to the law on land reform and the implementation of the decisions of the second national land conference.• Improvements to the willing seller, willing seller policy.• Criteria for the provision of commercial agricultural land to emerging farmers, members of marginalised communities and farmworkers• 687 000 hectares of additional municipal agricultural land for people in the Otjozondjupa, Omaheke, Oshikoto, Kavango East and Kunene regions.• Climate-friendly investments in water and energy infrastructure.• Climate change research and the full application of the 2007 Environmental Management Act.• Better standards for waste management. UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT (UDF)• Everyone has the right to land, not just the ones who can afford it.• Acquisition and redistribution of land.• Very high taxes for foreign landowners, limit such ownership to a fixed period and extend only with application for Namibian citizenship. WORKERS REVOLUTIONARY PARTY (WRP)• Restoring ancestral land rights to restore people's dignity. *Where parties are missing, their manifestos were not yet available.

Election 2019: Land reform, agriculture and climate

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Namibian Sun 2025-06-18

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