namibia: LAND REFORM AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION: EXPERIENCES FROM NAMIBIA

Redistributive land reform in Namibia is widely regarded as a precondition for sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation. This paper briefly discusses the development of thinking on land reform and the development of land reform models prior to Independence. It refers to progress on land redistribution since 1990 and discusses some of the problems experienced, concluding that land reform in Namibia has progressed at a very slow pace.