Discussant comments on “Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture”
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Let me congratulate Thom Jayne and his co-authors on a comprehensive overview of emerging land issues in Africa. Resolution of these issues is clearly central to the successful transformation of the agricultural sector in Africa in terms of growth, poverty reduction, and sustainable management of natural resources. Even more fundamentally, it is critical to avoiding the growing number of conflicts surrounding land issues. The paper by focusing on people rather than land per se and drawing on a wealth of farm household data over many years provides an important complement to the recent media attention to “land grabs”.
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Emerging Land Issues in African Agriculture: Implications for food security and poverty reduction strategies
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