How smallholder farmers can transition to medium-scale producers

How can governments facilitate land tenure for smallholder farmers and while encouraging private sector investment that advances food security?

“Smallholder farmers have to be at the center” of inclusive policies that will enable them to transition to medium-scale producers, Joan C. Kagwanja, head of the Land Policy Initiative at the U.N. Commission for Africa, said earlier this year in this video interview with Devex’s Alexandre Cabaret on the sidelines of a high-level conference hosted by the European Parliament to address insecurity of land tenure and absence of property rights prevalent in developing countries.

Kagwanja also discussed the main challenges to securing land rights in Africa and the need to advance the rights of women to own land.

Click on the above video for more insights from the UNECA official, in particular on the implementation status of Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012.

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