Towards Circular Economy: Barriers, Drivers, Challenges and Potentialities in Angola’s Agribusiness

Antonino Kamutali (), Pedro Henriques (), Maria Raquel Lucas () and Ana Marta-Costa
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Antonino Kamutali: Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos, Huambo, Angola and CEFAGE- Center forAdvanced Studies in Management and Economics, Universidade de Évora
Pedro Henriques: Department of Economics and MED - Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Universidade de Évora
Maria Raquel Lucas: Department of Management and CEFAGE- Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics, Universidade de Évora

A chapter in Entrepreneurship, Technological Change and Circular Economy for a Green Transition, 2024, pp 275-295 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Agribusiness has a huge impact on the three dimensions of sustainability and it also plays a very important role in humanity’s livelihood by providing food safety and food security, fibre, fuel and animal feed, as well as being a sector that moves the economy and the agricultural policies in the world. In Angola, the contribution of agribusiness to GDP is still very low, but increasing from 0.03% in 2019 to 6.3% in 2021. Angola has the potential to become one of the leading countries in agribusiness in the region, due to the availability and quality of resources (human and natural) and edaphoclimatic conditions (weather, water and soils). In order to meet its internal food needs, Angola needs a modern agribusiness sector. Such implies incorporating innovation and new production technologies and other technological changes and/or technological adequacy. This chapter aims to analyse the situation of agribusiness in the Angolan provinces of Cuanza Sul, Huambo, Bié and Luanda, namely, the barriers, potentialities and challenges to its development from a perspective of circular economy and sustainability. The findings reveal that Angolan agribusiness has a weak performance, but that it has the potential to grow, in terms of size, quantity, quality and level of sustainability. The poor performance is fundamentally due to the use of inappropriate agronomic practices, including the scarce use of improved technologies and the low technical capacity of the players along the entire value chain.

Keywords: Agriculture production; Focus group; Performance; Stakeholders; Supply chain; Sustainability; Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-48079-9_13

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