‘Land grabs’ and alternative modalities for agricultural investments in emerging markets

This chapter sets out to explore three hypotheses:

that the strengthening of Africa’s small farmers is not the only defensible way to attempt increased agricultural production in the sub-Saharan region;

that ‘land grabs’ of the kind excoriated in the press are not the only way to invest in commercial African agriculture; and,

that sub-Saharan Africa represents vast, untapped agricultural production potential that can be mobilised equitable and sustainably.