| Publication |
2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Recent global policy attention to "land grabs" by international investors while very important, has diverted attention away from two other process that may be even more fundamentally affecting Africa's economic development trajectory: (1') the pace of land acquisitions by medium-scale African investors, who non-' control more land than large scale foreign investors in each of the three countries examine in this study (Ghana Kenya, and Zambia); and (ii) the overall impact of land transections on the viability of African governments' agricultural strategies, which for the most part remain predicated on smallholder led development and will require the expansion of cropland by smallholder household in Zambia and Ghana
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