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Food Safety and Business Opportunity in Angola

UAN- CAPACITY BUILDING CONTRIBUTION

José Pedro

UAN Vice Chancellor

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Summary

• History

• Educational Policy to the Agrarian

Sector

• UAN Restructure

– Phytogenetic Resource Centre

• Governamental Program

• Public Private Partnerships

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History

• 1975 - 1990

– National Independence

– Economy• Pre-colonial

– Agriculture Bum 1973

• Centralized planning

• Massive escape of staff (there are less than 100 senior officers in the country)

• Higher education crisis (massive training ofstaff abroad)

– War

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History

• 1990 – 2002

– Market Economy

– 1992 Elections

– General Civil War• Destruction of all infrastructures

• Mined agriculture fields

• Food crisis

• Consolidation and peak of the parallel market

– Collapse of the agrarian higher education• FCA closed

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History

• 2002

Peace

• 8 years after….

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Educacional Politics to the

Agrarian Sector

• Medium Agrarian Institutes

– Huambo

– Andulo

– Waku Kungo

– Malange

– Huila

– Uige

• Network of professional training centers

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Educacional Politics to the

Agrarian Sector

• Higher education

– Reopening of FCA

• Master in Agriculture and Nature Resources

– Agrarian School in K.Sul

– Agronomic Institute in Kunene

– Food Technology Institute in Malange

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UAN Restructure

• 6 New Regional Universities 2009

– Development of higher education/local

problems

– Reducing the Regional Asymmetries

– Higher social inclusion

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Phytogenetic Resource Centre

• It is part of the UAN

• Controls 3.600 access to local varieties

– Corn

– Sorghum

– Beans

– Macunde Beans

– Massambala

– Massango

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Governamental Program

• Small and medium family businesses

– 350 millionsUSD until 2012

– Increments of the % to Agriculture in the

General Budget of the State

– Security Strategy to the food safety and

nutritional

– Rehabilitation of the infra-structures (roads,

bridges, dams, irrigation canals.. Etc)

– Inviting environment to opportunities in

AgroBusiness

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Public Private Parternships

• Encourage AgroBusiness

• Companies and Projects

– Pungo Andongo farm

– Gesterra

– Mecanagro

– Aldeia Nova

– Sopir

– Agro-industry projects

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CONCLUSIONS

• ANGOLA Offers

– GREAT OPORTUNITIES FOR AGRO

BUSINESS

– GROWING ECONOMY

– DIVERSE ECONOMY

– STABILITY ENVIRONMENT

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• MUITO OBRIGADO

• THANK YOU

• MERCI

José Pedro

UAN Vice Chancellor

Tel. 00244923876651

E-mail: zzeca2001@yahoo.com.br