The Land Policies for Resilient and Equitable Growth in Africa report analyzes these shortcomings and proposes policy responses for African countries’ unique and varied contexts.

Most land deals have occurred in Africa, one of the few regions on the planet that still have millions of acres of fallow land and plentiful water available for irrigation. It also has the largest ...

In South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past, land distribution was grossly unequal on the basis of race. The country is still suffering the effects of this. So expropriation of property is a ...

President Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation of the country’s policies, ...

President Trump has threatened to cut all US aid to South Africa while claiming, deepening already sharp divisions between ...

And they're devastating crops in East Africa, where millions of people ... And within a year, the locusts destroyed over 170,000 acres of land in Somalia and Ethiopia — where people rely on ...

Why manufacturing has struggled to take off is hotly debated. Africa has for centuries had lots of land and a scarcity of labour, the opposite of Asia. At independence economies were geared to ...