World Food Programme and NCS take on food security
ESTER KAMATI
WINDHOEK
The United Nations World Food Programme and the Namibia Correctional Service (NCS) on Friday signed an agreement to strengthen sustainable food systems and programmes in Namibia.
“We place great importance on creating rehabilitation and various support programmes that enable inmates to engage in constructive activities so that they are empowered and ready to live crime-free lives upon their release back into society,” stated the NCS commissioner-general Raphael Hamutenya.
Under the agreement, the NCS and the World Food Programme will contribute to achieving food security through sharing resources and implementing projects in the production and supply of food.
The Namibian Correctional Service hopes to promote “smart agriculture, technical cooperation and offender capacity development,” said Hamutenya.
Hydroponic project
The World Food Programme has so far provided expertise and material to the NCS in support of a hydroponics project at the Gobabis, Oluno and Windhoek correctional facilities.
George Fedha, the country director of the World Food Programme in Namibia, said some of these facilities are doing well and have the potential to eventually export their produce.
The agreement, according to him, is an effort to scale up their existing work while encouraging the NCS to contribute to the economy through agricultural production.
“The signing of this memorandum marks the beginning of the next phase of the relationship to scale up the activities that we currently have, so that we can enable Namibia to reach a very high level of food systems that are sustainable, transformative and futuristic,” said Fedha.
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WINDHOEK
The United Nations World Food Programme and the Namibia Correctional Service (NCS) on Friday signed an agreement to strengthen sustainable food systems and programmes in Namibia.
“We place great importance on creating rehabilitation and various support programmes that enable inmates to engage in constructive activities so that they are empowered and ready to live crime-free lives upon their release back into society,” stated the NCS commissioner-general Raphael Hamutenya.
Under the agreement, the NCS and the World Food Programme will contribute to achieving food security through sharing resources and implementing projects in the production and supply of food.
The Namibian Correctional Service hopes to promote “smart agriculture, technical cooperation and offender capacity development,” said Hamutenya.
Hydroponic project
The World Food Programme has so far provided expertise and material to the NCS in support of a hydroponics project at the Gobabis, Oluno and Windhoek correctional facilities.
George Fedha, the country director of the World Food Programme in Namibia, said some of these facilities are doing well and have the potential to eventually export their produce.
The agreement, according to him, is an effort to scale up their existing work while encouraging the NCS to contribute to the economy through agricultural production.
“The signing of this memorandum marks the beginning of the next phase of the relationship to scale up the activities that we currently have, so that we can enable Namibia to reach a very high level of food systems that are sustainable, transformative and futuristic,” said Fedha.
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