Meatco Foundation Drives National Rollout of Farmer Business School Programme

Kavango East Region, Namibia | 15 September 2026 - From 07 to 11 September 2026, the Meatco Foundation held a five-day Farmer Business School (FBS) Trainer Refresher Training at the Mashare Agricultural Development Institute (MADI) in the Kavango East Region. The training supports the national rollout of the FBS programme, through which approximately 800 smallholder and subsistence farmers will gain practical business and farming skills to help them develop more commercially viable and resilient enterprises.


The national rollout is expected to begin in October 2026, following the successful completion of the just concluded FBS Trainer Refresher Training mentioned above.

The initiative marks the next phase of the programme, following a pilot conducted at Tsumamas in the Kunene Region in May 2026. The programme is designed to help farmers approach farming not only as a means of food production, but as a business requiring planning, financial management, market awareness, sound production practices and informed decision-making.

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