The $12 million community garden project to address food insecurity in the Kunene Region has officially been handed over by Environment, Forestry and Tourism Minister, Pohamba Shifeta.

The 16-hectare garden at Fransfontein is focused on both horticultural and dryland crop production.

The Fransfontein Community Garden, established by the Environmental Investment Fund through the IREMA project, will benefit more than 1,700 people in the settlement.

Beneficiaries and members of Farm Okukuna, a community garden project in the Goreangab Dam area, are accusing the City of Windhoek of mismanagement since they took over the project.

Established in May 2018, Farm Okukuna was a community-led project, producing vegetables and other alternative forms of farming to feed themselves and other communities in Windhoek.