The Namibia Nature foundation (NNF) in cooperation with Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) is glad to announce the launching of the "Food security and habitat protection in KAZA" project in an effort to support communities in the KAZA area in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia. This project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), through the Bengo Engagement Global program. It is implemented by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Germany together with in-country partners who are carrying out the planned activities. In Namibia, this joint project is being implemented by the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) in cooperation with Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC) and aims to bring stakeholders together to promote agroecological approaches in crop and livestock production. The successful adoption of these approaches can increase food production on smaller areas without shifting cultivation and thus safeguarding of wildlife habitat and diversifying income through sale of surplus produce. Project activities include crop and vegetable cultivation, livestock production, civil society advocacy and transboundary collaboration (including Zambia and Zimbabwe). Sustainable crop production will be promoted by mentoring small scale farmers in employing agroecological principles in their fields and backyard gardens. This will focus on increasing soil fertility and thereby reducing the urge for shifting cultivation, but actually benefitting from remaining on the land where the efforts for improving soil fertility and thereby productivity was carried out. In order to achieve a sustainable management change a mentoring approach will be used, whereby lead farmers, who have been successful with these methods in the past mentor attached farmers in implementing these measures. Farmer-to-farmer exchange will be facilitated through exchange visits and other measures. Agricultural value-chain development will also be supported to enable farmers to generate additional monetary income.