Agricultural Typologies – Angola

The HiH Agricultural Typology analysis targets the identification of micro-regional level innovation opportunities, bottlenecks, and investment gaps. This concept is based on the production possibilities frontier applied to farm activities. It draws on household-level surveys and geospatial data on agroecological conditions, accessibility, and poverty.

The final Agricultural Typology consists of a classification representing a combination of agricultural potential, agricultural efficiency, and priority (poverty) components in each region. The 7 classes are as follows:

• Critical with moderate agricultural opportunities.

• Medium priority with moderate agricultural opportunities.

• Low priority.

• High priority.

• Medium priority with high agricultural opportunities.

• Low priority with high agricultural opportunities.

• High-performance.

Data Components

The Agricultural Potential component provides the maximum agricultural income smallholder farmers can attain if performing at maximum capacity (their own, as well as of the markets, productive infrastructure, and basic services surrounding them). It is determined by both the biophysical and economic factors. The interaction of these two sets of elements establishes the maximum income a farmer can earn from agricultural activities.

The Agricultural Efficiency component defines how much of the potential is attained by farmers in a region under current conditions. To increase their efficiency, farmers need to reduce transaction costs in agricultural production and marketing through improved infrastructure (such as roads) and services (such as market information), overcome market failures (access to credit, insurance, land markets, etc.), and receive better access to basic services (such as education and extension services).

The Priority component reveals a region’s degree of urgency for investments in development, measured in terms of the wellbeing of the local population, the target beneficiaries of agricultural innovation efforts. Source: World Bank 2020.

For more information please refer to the Guidance note listed under Data and Resources section.

Supplemental Information

The HiH Agricultural Typology analysis is a dataset developed in the framework of the Hand-in-Hand (HIH), which is an evidence-based, country-led, and country-owned initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aiming to accelerate the agricultural transformation and sustainable rural development to eradicate poverty, and end hunger and all forms of malnutrition.