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Agribusiness and territorial development : the example of the Senegal river delta
E. Valette, CIRAD, UMR Art-Dev
Controversies
The private sector and foreign investments in African agriculture
• a key role in the process of revitalizing agricultural production through agribusiness-led development ?
or
• A risk to the well-being of the poorest familyfarmers?
• The opportunity to fullfill large and exploitable yields gaps and cultivate suitable “marginal or unoccupied lands” ?
or
• A global land acquisition phenomenon resulting in “enclaves of advanced agriculture” offering little benefit to the host nations and “resulting in purely extractive neo-colonialism” ?
Controversies
Investors from 12 countries for more than 500 000 Ha (from 2003)
46 873 ha
45 557 ha
57 085 ha
38%
31%
31%
En production
En coursd'installation
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