Improved national food security situation, and higher overall agricultural production.

Increased value addition to local horticulture produce, and increased export revenue from agricultural products.

Irrigation systems can negatively impact the environment, if not pursued with a sustainability approach, and lead for example to ground water depletion.

The use of irrigation systems can lead to automation and hence reduce the need for labour, which can result in lower employment opportunities.

Irrigation systems necessitate investments like water utilisation structures. Unless these investments are realised at scale, the impact of the opportunity might not be significant.

Enhance Namibia's agro-processing capacity to improve food security in the country and promote export of produce to Southern African Development Community (SADC) markets.

Industrial Policy, 2013: Introduces initiatives that establish small-scale value adding processing for vegetable and fruit products for the domestic and regional markets. The projects will be linked to the Green Scheme and Fresh Produce Hubs (9).

Agricultural Policy, 2015: Creates a conducive environment for increased and sustained agriculture production and productivity, to accelerate the agriculture sector contribution to the national Growth Domestic Product, and to promote development of national agriculture sector (18).

Agriculture Marketing and Trade Policy and Strategy, 2011: Contributes to the achievement of the agriculture sector’s objectives as reflected in Vision 2030, the NDPs and the National Agriculture Policy in concert with other policies and strategies across the agricultural value chain (10).

National Policy on Sub-Division and Consolidation of Agricultural Land, 2018: Serves to safeguard the sustainable existence of agriculture by preventing subdivision and fencing that leads to ecologically and economically non-viable farming units (12).

Growth at Home Strategy, 2012: Parallels the industrial policy outlining the small-scale value adding process (canning/ bottling) for vegetable and fruit products for the domestic and regional markets (19).

Financial incentives: Agribank, as a state-owned financial institution and mandated by the Agribank Act (2003), advances money to persons or financial intermediaries to promote agriculture and activities related to agriculture (22).

Fiscal incentives: Farmers can deduct capital expenditure in full in the year in which the expenditure is incurred, limited to the farming taxable income for the year. This includes a deduction of capital expenditure relating to power supply (13).

Other incentives: FNB's Agri Medium-Term Loan product can be used for the establishment of production capacity, such as the purchase of livestock, establishing orchards and farm buildings, and other projects that take time to generate an income (23).

Agronomic Industry Act, 1992: Provides for the establishment of a Board for the Agronomic Industry in Namibia, to regulate its powers and functions and to provide for matters incidental thereto (24).

Agricultural Produce Export Ordinance Act, 1928: Provides for the inspection and grading of agricultural produce which is to be exported from South West Africa for purposes of sale, for the charging of special fees in respect of such inspection and grading, for the inspection of premises used for the slaughter of animals for such export or for the preparation and manufacture of articles derived from such produce (25).

Marketing Act, 1968: Consolidates the laws providing for the regulation of the production and sale of agricultural products, for the establishment of certain boards in connection therewith, for the establishment of a national mark, and for the grading and standardization of agricultural products (26).

Investors such as Agribank Namibia, Musa Capital Namibia (Mid-Cap Fund), EOS Capital (Euphrates Agriculture Fund), FNB Namibia and Spitz Capital. Existing projects such as the Naute and Neckartal dams and Green Scheme projects like Sikondo, Ndonga Linena and SMF Farms.

Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, Namibia Agronomic Board (NAB).

The Environmental Investment Fund (EIF) is the local partner for the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which provides funding for the development and implementation of environmentally sustainable development projects, including irrigation schemes (27).