Fernando Paiva

"We are running the projects in the provinces of Benguela, Bie, Huambo and Huila," Fernando Paiva, ChevronTexaco's director of public and governmental relations told IRIN.The company was also set to launch a micro-credit bank in Angola later this year, he added.

(from L) Afropop Worldwide's Fiona Dunne and Board Member, Sandra Rattley, and ChevronTexaco's International Relations Advisor Joe Lorenz, Government Affairs Manager Fernando Paiva, communications specialist Lwena Pegado, Manager International Government Affairs Luddy Hayden, and Afropop Worldwide's President and Executive Producer Sean Barlow at the conclusion of the 2004 Africare benefit dinner

Fernando Paiva, ChevronTexaco's Public and Government Affairs manager in AngolaPeace, for the first time in the memory of most Angolans, "moved from hope to expectation," notes Fernando Paiva, a veteran Public Affairs manager for ChevronTexaco's Angolan operating unit, Cabinda Gulf Oil Co.Ltd. (CABGOC).
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Fernando Paiva, ChevronTexaco's Public and Government Affairs manager in Angola.More

"We predict a 40 per cent rise in production up until the end of 2008," Chevron's spokesman Fernando Paiva told Reuters.

"Investing in agriculture in Angola will have the largest impact on poverty reduction and provide the most dramatic potential for increasing family income," says Fernando Paiva, Public and Government Affairs manager for ChevronTexaco's Angolan operating unit, Cabinda Gulf Oil Company.

Additional efforts in 2003 focused on small- and medium-size business development.

"We are running the projects in the provinces of Benguela, Bie, Huambo and Huila," Fernando Paiva, ChevronTexaco's director of public and governmental relations told IRIN.The company was also set to launch a micro-credit bank in Angola later this year, he added.

According to ChevronTexaco`s director for public and governmental relations, in Angola, Fernando Paiva, who was speaking at the opening session of the national conference on agriculture, the projects are being implemented in partnership with the Institute for Agronomic Development and the Institute for Agronomic Research, both institutions under the control of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Besides ChevronTexaco, the said project, which is to mobilize over 900.000 people, counts with the participation of NGOs such as USAID, CARE, World Vision, Africare and Save the Children.

ChevronTexaco and other associate companies operating on "Block Zero" exploration area, in partnership with ACDI/VOCA and USAID have been implementing an agricultural programme in the northern Cabinda province, which is estimated at 3 million US Dollars.

Fernando Paiva also informed that the ChevronTexaco and associate firms of "Block 2" are drafting development projects for the agricultural sector of the northern Zaire province.

He explained that ChevronTexaco has been working with specialized NGOs aiming at giving prompt response to some of the challenges facing the country.

On his opinion to invest in agriculture enables the return to rural development resources, whose impact will reflect on poverty reduction and, consequently, an increase on family income.Angop/net/jmc

"We are running the projects in the provinces of Benguela, Bie, Huambo and Huila," Fernando Paiva, ChevronTexaco's director of public and governmental relations told IRIN.The company was also set to launch a micro-credit bank in Angola later this year, he added.

The projects were initiated by ChevronTexaco, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the NGOs, CARE, World Vision, Africare and Save the Children.About 900,000 people had benefited so far.

The bulk of the financial aid, about $32 million, was taken up by food relief projects, while about $4.3 million had gone towards providing seeds to farmers, and $1.3 million on other agricultural projects being implemented by the state-run Institute for Agronomic Research and the Institute for Agronomic Development.

"We have also spent about $2.3 million on agriculture courses and research at the Institute for Agronomic Research in Huambo," Paiva said.

In addition, the aid partners were running a $3 million agricultural programme in the Cabinda enclave, and were setting up other agricultural projects in the northern province of Zaire.
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In the wake of comments by Lutucuta that Angolan banking institutions were reluctant to offer loans to the agricultural sector, Paiva said ChevronTexaco was in the process of establishing a microcredit facility that would begin operating later this year.