Did You Know?

Agriculture employs 65 per cent of Africa’s labor force and accounts for 32 per cent of gross domestic product (World Bank)

More than 90 per cent of Africa’s rural land is undocumented, making it vulnerable to unfair land acquisitions and expropriation with poor compensation (World Bank)

It would cost African countries and their development partners, including the private sector, an estimated US$ 4.5 billion, spread over ten years, to scale up land policy reforms and investments (World Bank)

The size of agricultural land in Africa is approximately 1 billion hectares distributed across the various sub-regions of Africa as follows: 26% Eastern; 24% Western, 21% Northern; 15% Southern and 14% Central (AfDB)

In Africa there are around 33 million small farms of less than two hectares, representing 80 per cent of all farms in the continent (FAO)

African Land Policy Centre

About LPI

The Land Policy Initiative is a joint programme of the tripartite consortium consisting of the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Its purpose is to enable the use of land to lend impetus to the process of African development.