Ekoka, Ohangwena region, Namibia

Description

Anthropological research fieldsite for work done on the effect of sedentarisation on folk knowledge practices and subsistence in 2014-15. Community of around 300 people of !Xun, =Akhwe Hai||om and Kwanyama ethnicity in a semi-segregated environment, mix of agriculture, pastoralism and some minor hunting and gathering forming subsistence, with heavy reliance on government-provided food aid at the time research conducted, during drought.