Commercial cattle farming in semi-arid regions is subject to high rainfall risk. At the same time, it is prone to rangeland degradation. Theoretical works suggest that rainfall risk management by means of financial instruments may stabilize farming-derived income over the short-term, but...

This chapter restates the law that shapes maritime affairs in Namibia, focusing on its linkages to international law. Namibia has a long coastline, measuring 1,572 kilometres along the Atlantic Ocean. As a result of the Benguela Current wind-driven upwelling system, the country boasts one of the...

In the context of recent legal developments in Namibia promoting the common based management of water resources, the main focus of the project underlying this paper was to gain a detailed impression of how the rural communities in the country were dealing with the development of institutional...