Smallholders' land access in Sub|Saharan Africa

Smallholders' land access in Sub-Saharan Africa

Smallholders' land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape? Klaus Deininger a, Sara Savastano a, Fang Xia b,* a World Bank, United States b University ...

Changing Farm Size Distributions and Agricultural Transformation in ...

Land Econ. 87(2):312–34. Deininger K, Savastano S, Xia F. 2017. Smallholders' land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape? Food Policy ...

Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous ...

Making a living from a small farm is difficult in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we quantify how difficult, using a simple, robust, ...

Women Smallholder Farmers: What is the Missing Link for the Food ...

In Africa, women usually have almost no control of assets such as collateral and household property. Moreover, several hindrances lead to gender ...

Land is Abundant and Land Markets are Virtually Absent - World Bank

Land rental markets improve equity by promoting land access to those with limited land. ... Report: Smallholders' land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new ...

Role of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa Agriculture

Smallholder farmers are agricultural producers who own or manage small plots of land ... access to credit, markets, and technology.

is the scramble for land in africa foreclosing a smallholder - jstor

arable land in sub-Saharan Africa, foreign investors moved quickly to acquire land ... many parts of the region, governments may be able to improve access to land ...

African smallholders can double their yields with half the water

Water experts estimate that only 4 to 7 percent of arable land is irrigated in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the lowest ratio across the world.

Sub-Saharan Africa : The state of smallholders in agriculture

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Smallholder Farming - at the Centre of our Food Systems

At the heart of Africa's agriculture are smallholder farmers, some 33 million hardworking individuals who typically farm on less than a hectare of land.

Are medium‐scale farms driving agricultural transformation in sub ...

The share of land under medium-scale farms is not rising in densely populated countries such as Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda, where land scarcity ...

The Investment Case for Land Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Altogether, the total cost of registering individually and communally owned rural land in Sub-Saharan Africa is approximately US$ 3.1 billion. 7 ...

Increasing agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa is one ...

To grow food you need two things: some land and some of your time. These two – land and labor – are two of agriculture's 'inputs'. To build a ...

Winning in Africa's agricultural market - McKinsey & Company

Agriculture in Africa has a massive social and economic footprint. More than 60 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is smallholder ...

The case for distributed irrigation as a development priority in sub ...

Yields for smallholder farmers in SSA remain the lowest in the world, and rapid population growth is reducing the per-capita farmed area, making ...

Landesa in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yet, 90 percent of the land in rural Africa is undocumented. Insecure land rights leave many African communities and households vulnerable to exploitation and ...

The future of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa - IFAD

That's why young people in densely populated areas will need access to better farming technologies and new land. Despite the strong urbanisation, small farming ...

(PDF) Smallholders' Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan ...

Land remains a highly emotive issue in South Africa and the bulk of government strategies to restructure the agricultural sector since 1994 have revolved around ...

Consequences for the food security of smallholder farmers in sub ...

Smallholder farms are crucial to feed the planet but are also food insecure. This chapter uses quantitative data on smallholder systems across sub Saharan ...

(PDF) Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa

Yet in four of the locations (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi), land is so constraining that only 42–53% of households achieve food self-sufficiency, and ...