I Agree with President Weah; Land Rights Is Key for Rural Development

Jan 24, 2018 | Fidel Budy
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“Together, we owe our citizens clarity on fundamental issues such as the land beneath their feet, freedom of speech, and how national resources and responsibilities are going to shift from this capital to the counties….” – President George M. Weah. Discourse on securing land tenures for rural communities in Africa has been animated by recent growing concerns about large-scale agro-investments in land resources on the continent. Large-scale land investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, has garnered much attention because of its potential to destabilize countries, displace millions, and most contentiously, to exclude indigenous people from the processes of state-building.