Neglected Issues in the Decline of Africa’s Agriculture: Land Tenure, Land Distribution and R&D Constraints

Giovanni Cornia

Chapter 11 in From Adjustment to Development in Africa, 1994, pp 217-247 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Despite the region’s wealth of natural resources, food production across sub-Saharan Africa has grown more slowly than population growth since the late 1960s, leading to a worsening food crisis that has occasionally reached famine proportions. The growth rate of agricultural production, which averaged between 2 and 3 per cent annually during the 1960s, slowed down during the 1970s before rising modestly in the 1980s and early 1990s. During the 1970s, 13 SSA countries suffered absolute declines in agricultural production, while between 1980 and 1992 (year of a particularly severe drought) another eight countries witnessed further declines in food production despite numerous policy efforts aimed at giving a new impulse to the sector (see Chapters 2 and 5).

Keywords: Land Tenure; Land Reform; Land Market; Tenure System; Property Regime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23596-4_11

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