The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa

Preface

Land issues in sub-Saharan Africa are again high on the policy agenda, as can be seen from the establishment of the Commission for Legal Empowerment of the Poor and the Global Land Tools Network by UNHabitat, as well as many countries implementing new land reforms with support from the World Bank and many donor countries. Yet our knowledge on these land policy-related issues are far from adequate in formulating sensible policies. Thus, the idea to write this book came about based on the observed gap in analysis of land mar­kets in Africa as compared to the huge literature on the topic, and particularly on land rental markets in Asia. Despite this neglect of the importance of land markets in Africa in the literature, we found them to ...