Resumen de Youth’s access to agricultural land in Sub-Saharan Africa: A missing link in the global land grabbing discourse
Eric Mensah Kumeh, Godfrey Omulo
Recent studies have called for investment in empirical research to give context-specific meanings to geospatial reports that land grabbing is rising. The response has been swift with literature emerging on the evolution and dynamics of land grabbing; including its contributions and impacts. One area that remains generally underexplored is the dynamics of landing grabbing in relation to youths’ access to land. Here, the authors argue that four issues – an impending youth bulge, a growing rebuttal of the long-held belief that Sub-Saharan African youths’ are not interested in agriculture, reports that land access is a barrier to youth entry into agriculture in the region as well as mounting evidence that emerging capitalist contexts redefine gender relations and roles – necessitate the urgent need for disaggregated studies to clarify the dynamics between youths and land grabbing. Specific knowledge gaps and research questions require answers to provide a basis for targeted policymaking on youths’ access to agricultural land.
