LAND RIGHTS AS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN DONOR AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENTS: Constraints and Opportunities for YieldWise in Kenya’s Mango Value Chain
Megan Olson, Jennifer Duncan, Tizai Mauto
Landesa, United States of America
Investment to improve the efficiency of smallholder farmers has the potential to strengthen food security, improve livelihoods, and enhance supply chains. Given the foundational nature of land rights to agriculture, the authors argue it’s important to accompany agricultural interventions with land tenure assessments to understand how those interventions can be impacted by – and potentially impact – smallholder’s land rights. This paper explores how land assessments in agricultural interventions can highlight barriers affecting program uptake, sustainability, and success, thereby shedding light on new solutions for donors and implementers. The authors draw on the land tenure assessment they conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation on its YieldWise Initiative programming in Kenya as an example, presenting findings and recommendations from that assessment. The authors present six land-related issues and accompanying recommendations to help Rockefeller and program implementers design, implement, and monitor the program to attain more sustainable and equitable outcomes, particularly for women and youth.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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