{"id":244146,"date":"2026-09-12T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angolas-cassava-queen-honored-by-un-food-agency-for-rural-innovation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:00:37","slug":"southern-africa-angolas-cassava-queen-honored-by-un-food-agency-for-rural-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angolas-cassava-queen-honored-by-un-food-agency-for-rural-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Angola&#8217;s &#8216;Cassava Queen&#8217; Honored By UN Food Agency for Rural Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Luena \u2014 Teresa de Castro Mariz, an Angolan producer known as the &#8220;Queen of Angolan Cassava,&#8221; has been named one of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization&#8217;s (FAO) 100 &#8220;Heroine Women&#8221; of 2026 for her work transforming agribusiness in the country&#8217;s east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Mariz, founder of the T. Mariz farm in Moxico province, was selected from a global pool of more than 600 candidates across 131 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The FAO initiative, titled &#8220;100 Heroine Women in Agri-food Systems and Rural Development,&#8221; recognizes&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609100679.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luena \u2014 Teresa de Castro Mariz, an Angolan producer known as the &#8220;Queen of Angolan Cassava,&#8221; has been named one of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization&#8217;s (FAO) 100 &#8220;Heroine Women&#8221; of 2026 for her work transforming agribusiness in the country&#8217;s east. Mariz, founder of the T. Mariz farm in Moxico province, was selected from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,5981,4263,13368,10663,5074,16529,7467,257,14063,6309,254,7153],"class_list":["post-244146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agency","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-cassava","tag-food","tag-honored","tag-innovation","tag-news","tag-queen","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}