HUAMBO — ADRA Executive Director Carlos Cambuta on Wednesday called on the Angolan government to put more emphasis on family farming to ensure the stability of the Strategic Food Reserve (REA).

 Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar to develop ADRA’s Strategic Plan 2023-2027, Kambutha said family farming is an answer to food shortages and access to employment, mainly in rural areas, and he said REA’s He said domestic production would provide security of supply.

According to Kambutha, ADRA’s vision is that food strategic reserves are supplied by domestic production, giving greater incentives to family farming rather than exports.

Cambutha added that stabilizing the strategic food reserve with domestic production will ensure and stimulate the flow of products for small and large farmers in the country.

 To this end, he called for the expansion of roads to motivate transport cooperatives and traders to become more involved in the agricultural sector. He argues that betting on family farming can, among other things, facilitate seed and fertilizer production, technical assistance, facilitate access to credit, promote land tenure to expand the field of production with a focus on self-sufficiency, development of the national economy, and hunger and poverty;

He stated that the ADRA Seminar aims, inter alia, to bring together actions to be developed over the next five years to contribute to the sustainable development of families, together with actions aimed at combating poverty and accessing education. I shared that there is self-preservation.

 The REA has been operational since his December 2021, basically stockpiling food to help in emergencies and disasters, and eventually supplying some commodities from a basic food basket. The aim is to influence and limit price increases.

 This is an initiative of the Angolan government to encourage increased agricultural and agroindustrial activity in the country, allowing the purchase, storage and distribution of food products of different shades to wholesalers.

 Action for Rural Development and the Environment (ADRA), an Angola non-governmental organization, was established in 1990. It focuses on promoting the country’s democratic and sustainable social, economic and environmental development and national reconciliation.