10 October 2017
Earlier this month, Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warned that Africa would continue to be stalked by poverty, hunger, and famine until governments provide smallholder farmers with secure rights to land. According to the World Bank, more than 90 per cent of Africa’s rural land is undocumented. Africa’s small family farmers – already burdened by soil degradation, climate change, and…