Angola's First Locally-Led Conservation NGO Rebuilds Cuando Cubango

ACADIR is Angola's first locally-led NGO working at scale on community conservation, operating across roughly 10 million hectares of the Cuando-Cubango province within the KAZA transfrontier conservation area. It helps villages secure formal rights to their land and natural resources, trains smallholders in conservation agriculture, and organizes fishing cooperatives to restore depleted freshwater stocks. In 2024 alone, 888 farmers adopted conservation agriculture practices that helped produce over 2,000 tonnes of maize, while roughly 4,000 fishers across three cooperatives began working to rebuild breeding grounds and cut destructive fishing practices.