Government's role in attracting viable agricultural investment : experiences from Ghana
Ahwoi, Kwesi
All Ghanaian Governments since 1844 have had policies for attracting viable agricultural investments with varying degrees of success. They range from non- interventionist policy (1844- 1956) to total state intervention along the entire value chain(1957-1966) during the immediate post-independence period through the era of structural adjustment program (SAP) where the private sector was given the role of attracting viable agricultural investments with the help of Government incentives provided in 1994 and 1995 by Acts of Parliament. The post SAP era is dealing with accelerated agricultural commercialization with large-scale agricultural investments expected to provide the stimulus. The paper questions the raising of the issue of land grabb at the very time that Africa that has not had a Green Revolution (GR) yet is attracting large-scale investment in food and biofuel to have her own Green Revolution and asks whose interests are being served.
Event: Annual Bank Conference on Land Policy and Administration
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