GREEN SHOOTS IN AGRICULTURE

摘要

Angola was once a major exporter of coffee and grain, but now imports nearly all its food. Thanks to a poor road network and weak supply chains, it is in many cases cheaper to do that than grow produce locally. Insecure land rights, a lack of irrigation systems and more recently drought have also held back agricultural development, but there are green shoots emerging. In Malange, in the north-east of Luanda, the 411,000-hectare Sociedade de Desenvolvimento do Polo Agroindustrial de Capanda (Sodepac) project is trying to kick-start large-scale farming with concessions for crops, livestock and agri-processing.