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

This chapter discusses the nature of sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural crisis, the dominant explanations and neglected issues regarding the decline of sub-Saharan Africa's agriculture, the dominant views on the impact of land tenure and land concentration on equity and efficiency, a section on empirical evidence and critique, the lack of induced institutional innovation and limited progress in R&D for traditional African food crops, and policy conclusions.