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2009-04-24 | permalink
Are big farms the key to African development?
Whether big farms are the key to Africa’s future has been a matter of debate for more than a generation. While increasing agricultural productivity is a key to poverty alleviation, achieving it is more complex. African history offers few reassuring precedents, for successful development has come at a high price – the landlessness of Zimbabweans, say, or the long grip on political power of the white Kenyans.
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2009-04-24 | permalink
Are big farms the key to African development?
Whether big farms are the key to Africa’s future has been a matter of debate for more than a generation. While increasing agricultural productivity is a key to poverty alleviation, achieving it is more complex. African history offers few reassuring precedents, for successful development has come at a high price – the landlessness of Zimbabweans, say, or the long grip on political power of the white Kenyans.
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