The Meatco Foundation, together with its consortium partners, has launched an innovative Agribusiness e-Academy aimed at strengthening the skills and resilience of smallholder farmers across Namibia and beyond. The initiative is delivered in partnership with Meatco Northern Communal Area (NCA), the Namibia National Farmers’ Union (NNFU), the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform (MAFWLR) and the GIZ “Farming for Resilience” (F4R) Programme, with support from the Matching Grant Fund under the GIZ Agri-Business Facility for Africa (ABF).

The e-Academy forms part of the wider “Business Support Facility for Resilient Agriculture Value Chains” — a joint action of the European Union (EU), the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS), and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-implemented by GIZ. The collaboration builds on long-term efforts to enhance sustainable agribusiness development and strengthen agricultural value chains across African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.