Angola

The Republic of Angola shares a border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the
north, Zambia to the east, Namibia to the south, and has the Atlantic Ocean to west.
Angola’s capital city is Luanda. It’s land area is 1.25 million sq km and estimated population
in 2016 was 28.8 million. Angola has around 4.9 million hectares (49000 sq km) of arable
land based on statistics in 2013. In 2015, approximately 14.75 million Angolans made up the
agricultural population.

Prior, to its civil war, Angola exported coffee and maize, in addition to other crops including
sisal, bananas, sugar cane, cassava and cotton. Post-war, Angola imports more than half its
food, with some estimates putting the figure as high as 90%. The civil displaced more than
four million people and damaged the local infrastructure. The danger from mines deployed
during the war also pose another challenge to farming and to the establishment of an
agribusiness sector.

Currently, Angola cultivates just 8% of its available land and agriculture accounts for only
10% of GDP. About 80% of the farmers throughout the country are smallholders.