AGRICULTURE and ENVIRONMENT are key to Angola’s future and ADPP works with mitigation, adaptation and at community level.
Climate change is a reality. Pollution is a reality. Ecosystem degradation is a reality. Renewable natural resources are being depleted and degraded, leaving communities who depend on them in an increasingly precarious situation.
With the very environment we depend upon under attack, and the least resilient in society suffering disproportionately, ADPP’s answer is to join forces with the vulnerable and fight back.
At project level, smallholders in ADPP Farmers’ Clubs learn environmentally friendly farming techniques, systems of irrigation that reduce water loss, the use of drought-resistant crop types and varieties. They plant trees, build firewood saving stoves, minimise pollution through improved waste disposal systems. ADPP engages charcoal producing communities to produce charcoal as efficiently as possible, to create environmental action groups and to plant trees.
ADPP Polytechnic students help develop efficient stoves at an affordable price and reduce charcoal loss by recycling residues into briquettes. Fishing communities have been learning the importance and means of reducing the depletion of fish stock, protect water sources, and increase overall sustainability.
Resilience to climate change is being achieved in the Cuvelai Basin through workshops and Community Action Groups, the demonstration of firewood saving stoves, seed banks, bee keeping and honey production, environmentally appropriate agricultural techniques, tree nurseries, horticulture and fish farming. Solar panels distributed to remote smallholdings and solar energy components of integrated development projects mean renewable energy sources are transforming lives and ensuring communication.
Community radio broadcasts are reaching farmers with technical help, information about environmental protection and weather warnings.
ADPP collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders in these projects, including the Ministries of Agriculture, Environment, Fisheries, Territorial Administration, provincial and municipal governments and traditional authorities, as well as multinational and national organisations.
Farmers
Provinces
People reached with environment awareness activities
AGRICULTURA
CLUBES DE AGRICULTORES são uma forma de organizar e treinar agricultores familiares, principalmente mulheres, para melhorar a segurança alimentar das suas famílias, mitigar a pobreza e promover o desenvolvimento rural.
Eles diversificam a sua produção, cultivam safras mais productivas e resistentes, e adotam a horticultura. O objectivo é alcançar a segurança alimentar e produzir excedentes para comercialização. O sistema do Clubes de Agricultores também inclui informações sobre saúde, bem como aula de alfabetização e emprendedorismo.
WOMEN’S FARMERS’ CLUBS
Since 2012, Women’s Farmer’s Clubs first in Cuanza Sul and since expanded to Cuanza Norte and Malanje have sought to promote the economic empowerment of 4500 women through sustainable agriculture, literacy, entrepreneurship and lifeskills.
Os Clubes de Agricultores têm 4.250 agricultores, sendo três quartos mulheres, organizadas em 85 clubes. Além do uso de ténicas de conservação agrícola, os clubes de todas as províncias continuam a desenvolver o sistema de crédito rotativo de animais, duplicando o número da criação de animais. A estação produtiva alargou-se através da combinação de plantação de culturas da estação seca e da estação das chuvas e as habilidades de literacia, adquiridas em anos anteriores, preparam o caminho para a melhoria da manutenção de registos e da gestão de pequenos negócios.
CLUBES DE AGRICULTORES LUANDA
1500 agricultores nos municípios de Icolo e Bengo e Belas estão a aumentar a produção com variedades de sementes melhoradas, diversidade de culturas, irrigação, promoção da horticultura e uso de métodos de conservação.
Dois terços dos membros agregaram valor à produção por meio do processamento e um número semelhante de membros elaboraram planos semanais, mensais e trimestrais. As demonstrações de culinária ajudaram os agricultores a obter o máximo benefício das hortaliças que cultivaram. Os clubes pagaram pelo sabonete, remédios, sementes, combustível, mão-de-obra, taxas de registro e custos de manutenção da bomba por meio da venda de produtos dos campos modelo.
LAND RIGHTS
ADPP collaborated with the Spanish NGO CODESPA in the implementation of a Land Rights project to improve the knowledge and the application of land law, support rural communities in the process of obtaining deeds for community land, introduce participative methods to resolve conflicts about land
and promote gender equality with respect to ownership of land in 30 communities in Ombadja and Cuanhama municipalities, Cunene. based on the FAO methodology for Demarcação Participativa de Terra, the pilot project will be replicated in other projects.
ENVIROMENT
GESTÃO SUSTENTÁVEL DE CARVÃO VEGETAL E DAS FLORESTAS
A ADPP faz parte do projecto piloto para promover a produção sustentável do carvão vegetal, com foco na produção eficiente de carvão vegetal e fogões a carvão eficientes, que visam mitigar o impacto enquanto apoiam a diversificação dos meios de subsistência.
No Huambo e Cuanza Sul, 18 comunidades produtoras de carvão criaram planos de gestão florestal, atingiram a meta de 75.000 árvores plantadas e estão a usar fornos a carvão mais eficientes. Suas experiências beneficiaram mais 40 comunidades associadas.
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: RADIO CUVELAI
Increased knowledge and advice on simple actions that any family can take contribute
to resilience. ADPP produced and broadcast a series of short community radio
programmes on Radio Cuvelai and Radio Cunene to reach remote communities with
key information on building resilience, and quickly adapted to include key messages
on Covid-19.
CRONOGRAMA
AS METAS GLOBAIS
ADPP's projects contribute to many of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals:
Eradicate extreme poverty
Increase water-use efficiency and ensure freshwater supplies
Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
Support local engagement in water and sanitation management
Build resilience to environmental, economic and social disasters
Increase global percentage of renewable energy
Double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers
Improve resource efficiency in consumption and production
Sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices
Reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters
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