Angola and Brazil signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the agricultural sector during a two-day visit to Luanda by Brazil's Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, André de Paula, on Tuesday, August 15. The ceremony followed an agreement between Presidents João Lourenço and Lula da Silva to implement a tropical agriculture development model program in Angola, based on knowledge accumulated by Brazilian farmers.
The flagship pilot project of this cooperation is "Terra Lunda," which plans to establish 20,000 hectares of grain production in Angola's Lunda Norte province. Priority areas include grain and cereal production, livestock, genetic improvement, agricultural machinery and equipment, storage facilities and bioinputs, as well as technical-scientific cooperation between research institutions in both countries.
The Memorandum seeks to bring together governments, the private sector, financial institutions, and guarantee mechanisms to enable Brazilian agricultural investments in Angola. On the Brazilian side, financing lines from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development and the Export Financing Program of Banco do Brasil will be encouraged, while Angola will mobilize financial institutions to support investments.
Between 2023 and 2025, various cooperation activities have already been developed, including the training of 140 Angolan technicians by the National Supply Company (CONAB), soil and topographic studies by Codesvaf on three thousand hectares in the Canal do Cafu region, and projects developed by Embrapa and Emater-DF. Brazil has also expressed willingness to support the rapprochement between the Opaia Group and the Brazilian fertilizer sector and identify concrete opportunities for Brazilian suppliers and investors through the Naval Group.
