Mangetti block

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The Mangetti Block is an area in Namibia . It is located east of Etosha National Park in the northeast of the country in the Oshikoto region .

The Mangetti Block is owned by the Namibian government and is leased to farmers by them . The Mangetti Block was created in 1970 as a project of ENOK, a forerunner of the Namibia Development Corporation (NDC, Namibian Development Company) and is a specialty today with regard to the distribution of ownership of land in Namibia.

The area is now administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry , which also carries out free maintenance of pumps and boreholes at regular intervals.

In 2004 there were 106 fenced farms in Mangetti Block, all of which were roughly the same size. The overwhelming majority of these farms specialize in cattle farming . The respective farm size was between 1,100 ha and 1,300 ha. However, the individual farmers have the option of leasing more than just one farm.

A special feature of the administration is the fact that in the Mangetti block the rent to be paid is calculated on the basis of the cattle kept per farm and not, as is usually the case, on the basis of the leased area. So to too high a stocking of the area with cattle, and therefore overgrazing are the land resource provided by the government available prevented. Therefore, every tenant has to forward the number of cattle he keeps to the ministry once a month. In 2004, no more than 120 cattle were allowed per farm.

However, because there is still a lack of effective controls, the overgrazing of the areas in the Mangetti Block is now an increasing problem. In addition, over the years, many illegal farms have sprung up around the Mangetti Block, which is especially true for the years applies after the country's independence . In the latter case, however, the inaccuracy of the law plays an important role because it is the question of whether the government, the community or the tribal chiefs (in the area around the Mangetti block especially the Ndonga -Könige and the kings of the Kwanyama ) for the award authorized by land, not answered clearly enough. In addition, each of these three parties continues to claim this right for itself.

Nevertheless, the project has been quite successful over the years and many Mangetti farmers are now considered to be quite wealthy.

From 2006, the Namibian government began reviewing and redefining the boundaries of all fenced farms in the Mangetti Block. The fear that individual farmers in the Mangetti bloc would lose their land in the course of this reform was denied by government circles. In making this decision, one plays with the idea of ​​dividing the area into smaller units in order to be able to offer as many people as possible a livelihood there. Nonetheless, the tribal chiefs of the Kwanyama and Ndonga responded to this government move by immediately advising their citizens to legally register their farms as soon as possible.

In 2006, a new veterinary fence was erected in the Mangetti block , as the fence that had been in place up until then had become unusable due to damage and destruction. The aim is to effectively prevent any spread of animal diseases that occur in northern Namibia to the more southern regions of the country.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Livia and Peter Pack: Namibia. DuMont, Cologne 2004, second, completely revised edition ISBN 3-7701-6137-8 .
  2. ↑ a b c Agriculture in Oshikoto. ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on the website of the Oshikoto Regional Council. (English)
  3. ↑ a b Govt starts with redrawing of farm boundaries in North. In: The Namibian. February 28, 2006. (English)
  4. ↑ The state wants to pull 2000 km of cordon. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. March 31, 2006.

Coordinates: 18 ° 32 ′ 11.8 ″  S , 17 ° 18 ′ 19.5 ″  E