This paper is a condensed presentation of findings in the project “Land and Legal Plurality in Angola” as a part of the research collaboration programme between CEIC, Universidade Catholica de Angola and CMI, Norway. Fieldwork was done in August and September 2009 and 2010 in the municipalities of Kachiungu and Caála, in Huambo province. The project selected Huambo Province as its study area. The main reasons for this is that the highland plateau in Huambo (Planalto Central) has had a well-developed agricultural sector over a relatively long period of time where the colonial authorities were very active with a substantial presence of settlers. The colonial legacy should therefore be taken into consideration in the evaluation and this also means that farming methods and traditional systems of land tenure has been under external influence over long time. Furthermore, the population density is relatively high in Angolan terms. One must therefore expect that Huambo Province represents the most ‘modern’ parts of Angolan small-holder agriculture and that it cannot, therefore, contrarily be cast as somehow out-dated and irrelevant for the country as a whole.