Agriculture and development in Angola: An assessment of agricultural policy since the end of the civil war

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, David Filipe Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/24841
• topic: Angola; Agricultura -- Agriculture; Política agrícola -- Agricultural policy; Desenvolvimento sustentável -- Sustainable development

This dissertation has the goal to answer the following research question: “What were the outcomes of the Angolan agricultural policies since the end of the civil war?”. This theme has a significant importance because it will help to understand how Angolan agricultural activity developed after the war, in an oil dependency context. Data for this dissertation was collected by government plans that include policies and goals for agriculture and reports concerning agricultural performance as well as some information related to agricultural credit and GDP structure published by the Angolan National Bank. It will be possible to notice that the theoretical path to design agricultural policies in Angola was made in a correct way. Nonetheless, results give the sensation that theory was not enough. Agricultural activity in Angola showed difficulty to develop and the main causes include lack of trained human resources, technology, research and credit stimulus to farmers. In a country with significant agriculture potential, it seems to be essential to analyse a better way to put policies in practice.