MOSAP II to be extended to 15 province in Angola

The government of Angola in collaboration with World Bank (WB) announced an extension of the MOSAP II project to 15 provinces of the country.

WB Executive Director for Angola, Nigeria and South Africa, Mr. Armando Manuel said they aim to reduce poverty in rural areas. Currently the project for Development of Family Agriculture and Commercialization (MOSAP II), funded by the World Bank and the Angolan government, is only being carried out in three provinces, namely Malanje, Huambo and Bié.

Mr. Armando said that studies had been made for the project’s brief expansion, which aims to boost and give rural communities better practices in the exercise of family farming, mainly to allow them to stop subsistence farming and evolve to profitable farming.

Mosap II

“The World Bank is at the forefront of fighting poverty and sharing prosperity within rural communities. MOSAP II project brought great changes in the way of doing agriculture, through the introduction of field schools,” he said.

Mosap II is an initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture, funded by the World Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The project aims to train and support farmers and peasant families with agricultural inputs and tools, monitoring and other field-related measures.

The provincial vice-governor for the Political, Social and Economic sector, Domingos Eduardo, specified that the local Government intends to propose to MOSAP II, the introduction of the applied research, with the purpose of empowering the peasant families with instruments for the improvement of their productivity.

Within the scope of the production and productivity increase, the provincial Government had legalized 18 farmers’ cooperatives, of which 16 have already received financing from commercial banks.