Africa Agribusiness Forum 14 June 2012

Inova Group LDA is a versatile professionally managed Angolan organisation operating in the environmental, meteorological, water, agriculture, logistical and associated technology fields. Inova Group LDA creates an innovative and enabling business environment for a network of local and international consultants, institutions and technology partners, by providing risk and due diligence business assessments, supported by an operational hub and logistical services, which aims to lower the risks and costs of doing business in Angola. Inova’s focus on long-term strategic partnerships results in the establishment of mutual trust between their clients and various multi-national corporations.

Angola Alliance Project List: (Since 2001) Some of the projects completed since 2001: 1999 – 2001: Southern Cabinda Integrated Development Programme (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) 2001 – 2002: Natural Resources and Land-use Mapping – Southwest Angola (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) 2001 – 2003: Rural Water Provision Project for Southwest Angola (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) 2003 – 2004: Natural Resources and Land-use Mapping – Huambo (Huambo Provincial Government) 2004 – 2005: Natural Resources and Land-use Mapping – Kuanza Sul (Kuanza Sul Provincial Government) 2005 – 2006: National Forestry Mapping and Sensitive Eco-Systems Assessment (Institute for Forestry Development) 2008 – 2010: Contract Management – Sumbe Irrigation Scheme - EPC Works Phase I (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) : Contact Management - National “Water for All” project (Minister of Water and Energy)

2009 – On-going : Matogrosso Farm – Enterprise Appraisal & Business Plan (Commercial Farming Enterprise) & Turn-key Renovation Plan Implementation & Farm Management Contract 2009 – 2011 : Study Project – National Strategy for the Sustainable Revitalisation of Cotton Production and Processing (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) 2009 – 2011 : Feasibility Study – Technical & Economic Viability Study for the Sumbe Irrigation Scheme (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) 2009 – 2011 : Business Plan – Micro-credit Scheme for Small-holder Farmers and Community Finance (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) 2010 – 2011 : Environmental & Social Management Plan for the Sumbe Irrigation Scheme (Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development) : Flood forecasting & Early Warning Systems for Benguela & Namibé Provinces and the Upper-Zambezi Catchment.

K.Sul Huambo Huila Namibe Cunene Land-use/Land-cover Mapping

National Transformation Map & Sensitive Eco-systems

National Rainfed Cotton & Maize Potential

T-Serv Telemetry: (Since 2008) Provider of surface and upper air meteorological measuring equipment; installation and maintenance of equipment; raw data meteorological data provider; telemetry solutions for the agro-met, hydromet and aviation meteorological sectors. International technology partners in ADCON Telemetry, OTT Hydromet, VAISALA, StromGEO, etc. Consortium with StormGeo/Norway & DHI-Denmark – Finance and Implement INAMET 5 year Strategic Plan (2012 – 2017) Agro-met AWS station national distribution list (see next slide) Goal: To have 300 operational AWS’s by 2015.

Agro-meterological stations for MINADERP NoProvinceArea 1CabindaBucozau 2CabindaSao Vicente 3UigeINCA 4UigeCamabatela 5CaixitoSassa Povoasao 6Caixito 7LuandaBenfica 8LuandaFunda 9Kuanza NorteLucala 10MalangeCacuso 11MalangePoligno Florestal 12HuamboIMA 13HuamboBailundo 14BiéCamacupa 15CuneneCuanhama 16CuneneXangongo 17*NamibeTombua 18Kuanza SulDois Morros 19Kuanza SulConda 20HuilaChibia 21HuilaMatala

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The flagship of the group is their project based business consortium Angola Alliance Consortium, which benchmarks its success on international best practices and the environmental and economic sustainability of the projects they are involved with. The consortium has successfully completed projects for various national departments and provincial governments, since Angola Alliance prides itself in putting together highly skilled and experienced project teams that globally represent the best minds in their respective fields. This ensures that they bring appropriate international research and relevant technology answers to each of their projects to the benefit of Angola, giving credence to their slogan GLOBAL NETWORK SOLUTIONS FOR A BETTER ANGOLA.

T-Serv Telemetry LDA supplies, implements and maintains a network of agro-meteorological stations, hydrometry sensors and more specialised meteorological measuring equipment and provides a platform for raw data communication and management protocols to their clients.

AngolSIG aims to provide institutional users with a one-stop service that collect, store, process, integrate, manipulate, model and distribute value added data from surface and upper-air meteorological observation stations and remote sensing data sources, mainly for environmental, meteorological, agricultural/rural development, aviation and hydrological applications.

AngolSIG (Concept under development, since 2010) AngolSIG is an initiative by Inova Group to provide Angola with a GIS- Centre and Data Warehouse for multi-sectoral use. AngolSIG aims to provide Angola with a one-stop service that will collect, store, process, integrate, manipulate, model and distribute data from surface and upper air meteorological observation stations and remote sensing data sources, mainly for environmental, meteorological, agricultural/rural development, aviation and hydrological applications. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are developed for customers that express a specific need. DSS’s currently under development by the R&D team: Rural Development: Land-use/Land-tenure Management System Forestry: Forestry Resources and Urban Edge Management System Agriculture: Agri-yield Management System Construction: Construction Industry Meteorological Risk Management System