Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity
- Publisher:
- World Bank
- Publication Date:
- 23 July 2013
- Tags:
- Africa, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Land and Rural Issues
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to nearly half of the world's usable, uncultivated land but so far the continent has not been able to develop these unused tracts, estimated at more than 202 million hectares, to dramatically reduce poverty and boost growth, jobs, and shared prosperity.
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