10 Ways Africa Can Revolutionize Agriculture

Applying these steps could dramatically reduce poverty.

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The Key to Economic Prosperity - Legal disputes and confusion around land ownership have attributed to a lacking agricultural industry and richer countries’ leasing or buying out land, aka land grabbing. "Improving land governance is vital for achieving rapid economic growth and translating it into significantly less poverty and more opportunity for Africans, including women who make up 70 percent of Africa's farmers, yet are locked out of land ownership due to customary laws,” said the World Bank vice president for Africa. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Banding Together Against Land Grabs - Many African farmers use communal land, territory historically owned by a community rather than an individual. Because these age-old areas are not considered private property, but instead state property, these territories are vulnerable to land grabs. To protect farmer’s rights to use communal lands, the report advises that farmers organize and authenticate communal groups, as well as demarcate boundaries and register communal rights.(Photo: REUTERS/Joe Penney) Ethiopia Displaces Residents for Sugar Plantations - Human Rights Watch and other organizations have accused the Ethiopian government of forcibly displacing tens of thousands of people to make way for state-run sugar plantations. (Photo: Hudson Apunyo/Landov)

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Growing Africa's Agriculture - The vast stretches of usable, uncultivated land and mineral wealth throughout Africa have been championed as a means of combating the continent’s steep poverty rate. So what’s the holdup? Land governance, according to a recent World Bank report. Keep reading to learn possible ways to renovate land reform in Africa, and in doing so, defeat poverty and food insecurity. —Patrice Peck(Photo: REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi)

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