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The number of undernourished people in Africa has increased by 46% since 1970, reaching 175 million in 1995 (IFPRI, 1995). Most of the food production gains in Africa during the last decades resulted from an extension of the agricultural frontier into drier regions (Platteau, 1988). However, at present this arid frontier can only be moved marginally, while it has already reached its sustainable limit in some countries. What can be done to cover the difference between food needs and production in Sub-saharan Africa aside from importing food? The IFPRI 2020 vision report mentions a whole range of actions including enhancing natural resource management by securing and reforming property rights (IFPRI, 1995:49).
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Rutten, M.M.E.M. (1998). Land Tenure Frontiers and Food Security among Maasai Pastoralists in Kenya. In: Bruins, H.J., Lithwick, H. (eds) The Arid Frontier. The GeoJournal Library, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4888-7_10
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