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    The new alliance on food security and nutrition: what are the implications for Africa’s youth?
    (Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016) Hakizimana, Cyriaque
    Young people are a growing proportion of Africa’s population and most live in poverty in rural areas. Despite urbanisation, in absolute numbers the rural youth are growing and agricultural development needs to prioritise opportunities for them to create land-based livelihoods. Large-scale land-based investments that allocate land and water to private companies are often justified with the promise of job creation, but typically create fewer jobs than the land-based livelihoods that they displace. Private investments in agriculture need to be designed to create opportunities for young people to create livelihoods for themselves and their families, both in primary production and also in upstream and downstream enterprises. Implementation of the New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition needs to avoid large-scale land-based investments and facilitate the process of developing young people as independent farmers and producers capable of establishing landbased and rural non-farm livelihoods on their own, and on their own terms.
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    Women's land rights in Africa: Scorecard 2019
    (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019) Mbaya, Sue
    This Scorecard is for: MEASURING how committed governments are to women’s land rights in each country. COMPARING how women are confronting their governments about land rights. LEARNING how women are tackling their land rights issues. SHARING lessons emerging from efforts by women to tackle their land rights issues.