LISBON – Angola´s Marxist government will offer 126 stateowned coffee plantations to private buyers in an attempt to revive the failing industry, the world´s fourth-largest before Angolan independence in 1975, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported Wednesday.
Micro-Level Effects of Oil Resources: Insights from a Survey of Angolan Microcredit Clients
This paper presents an experiment conducted among rnicrocredit clients in Angola. The results suggest that more educated clients and female clients are more likely to favour members of their credit group over outside demands. Microcredit clients are often assigned to credit groups with joint liability for loans. Credit groups are likely to generate the internal social dynamics needed for group solidarity to form and repayment to happen. This is a matter of both group dynamics and individual characteristics, as some individuais conform more easily to in-group norms.
Info Geominas – Edição no 11
O desenho do 1o Encontro Nacional das Geociências, Geoengenharias e Ciências afins (ENQGEO) está a compor-se. O evento já tem identidade própria e dia marcado. Na segunda quinzena de Maio os quadros, estudantes e profissionais ligados às ciências da Terra vão encontrar-se para falar de competências para pôr ao serviço do Planageo e da diversificação da economia. Juntamente com o cadastramento de quadros e as Jornadas Técnico-científicas de Geologia e Minas e Petróleos, o ENQGEO é parte de um ciclo de iniciativas ligadas ao Planageo.
Climate Change and Land Markets in Coastal Cities of Angola
The coastal areas of Angola where urban populations are growing most rapidly experience lower rainfall than inland areas and are subject to sudden storms and high annual variation. In urban coastal areas poorer communities of formerly war displaced have purchased and settled on land that is often at risk from flooding and erosion because these are the only affordable locations near to economic opportunities. There has been serious flooding in Angolan cities in recent years. There is a lack of urban land-use and disaster planning capacity to deal with these issues, though institutions have been created in the last five years. Limited information is available on the vulnerability of these coastal cities, on rainfall variability and trends, on river flows and on areas at risk (now and in the future). Similarly limited demographic and socio-economic information is available.
Cuvelai Basin – Improved Resilience and Climate Governance
Over the last four years, the Cuvelai Basin caught the headlines due to extensive flooding. The Cuvelai is a very specific water system, unlike any other in Southern Africa. Little is still known about this system, one of the most heavily affected by climate change in the whole region. To date there is only one publication that attempted a comprehensive approach towards understanding the water flows of the Cuvelai and their impact on human settlements and activities (Development Workshop 2011).
The project to improved resilience and Climate Governance in Angola’s Cuvelai Basin is supported by USAID in collaboration with World Learning. The goal of this project is ‘to strengthen the ability of communities living in the Cuvelai Basin to reduce climate-related risks.’
Since 2013 the project is supporting the communities in the Cuvelai Basin in adapting to climate change through integrated Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training, planning, implementation and advocacy. The objective of the project is to reduce human and economic loss related with extreme weather conditions, with a focus on the approximately 260.000 people that live in the most flood affected areas of the Basin’
The target population of this project is the approximately 260.000 people in the major towns and rural areas mostly affected by flood waters, in the Central Drainage Area, Cuvelai Delta, Cuvelai River Basin and Shana Zone,
(see annex 6 for maps) being part of the municipalities of Cuanhama, Ombajda, Namacunde, and Cuvelai.
The results of the project are:
- Production of detailed flood risk map of the Angolan part of the Cuvalei Basin
- Completed development of participatory flood prevention plans in 4 of the most vulnerable communities and raised general awareness of DRR against floods, droughts and pests
- Successful establishment of a flood early warning system in collaboration with Cunene provincial authorities and Namibian counterparts
- Raised public awareness on DRR and better information for policy-making
Some of the most important changes brought by this project include:
a) Improving public infra-structure spending
b) Orient land use and land use planning
c) Give people time to react to natural disasters
DW is the coordinating agency of this project, but the local partner is the Provincial Civil Protection Agency of the Government. Information and capacity are being transferred to local government and non-government institutions to create capital at the provincial level and guarantee sustainability and continuity of the activities initiated by this project
