Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity: A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments

Frank F. K. Byamugisha

No 13837 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: This is covers land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs" into a development opportunity by improving land governance to reduce the risks of dispossessing poor landholders while ensuring mutually beneficial investors' deals. This book shows how Sub Saharan Africa can leverage its abundant and highly valuable natural resources to eradicate poverty by improving land governance through a ten point program to scale up policy reforms and investments at a cost of USD 4.5 billion. And it`s points out formidable challenges to implementation including high vulnerability to land grabbing and expropriation with poor compensation as about 90 percent of rural lands in Sub Saharan Africa are undocumented, but also timely opportunities since high commodity prices and investor interest in large scale agriculture have increased land values and returns to investing in land administration. It argues that success in implementation will require participation of many players including Pan-African organizations, Sub Saharan Africa governments, the private sector, civil society and development partners; but that ultimate success will depend on the political will of Sub Saharan Africa governments to move forward with comprehensive policy reforms and on concerted support by the international development community.

Keywords: Rural; Development-Rural; Land; Policies; for; Poverty; Reduction; Rural; Development-Forestry; Banks; and; Banking; Reform; Communities; and; Human; Settlements-Land; Use; and; Policies; Rural; Development-Common; Property; Resource; Development; Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8213-9810-4
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