The first PIM’s Brown Bag seminar in 2014 took place on February 27 at IFPRI and was dedicated to the topic of Youth Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa (with a presentation of the recently issued World Bank report on the topic). The session showed great interest among our colleagues working in the area of agricultural and food policies. Presenters included Louise Fox, co-author of the resent World Bank report on the topic, former World Bank Lead Economist and now Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley; Karen Brooks, the report’s contributor and PIM Director; and Frank Byamugisha, author of the book on land rights in Africa “Securing Africa's Land for Shared Prosperity: A Program to Scale Up Reforms and Investments”. More here: http://bit.ly/1g92XTa

1. Frank F K Byamugisha
Former Lead Land Specialist at World Bank
Now Consultant, Washington DC
BBL Presentation at IFPRI PIM
Washington DC, USA
February 27, 2014

2. Youth Employment in Agriculture
Land-Related Constraints & Solutions
 Constraints:
 Low productivity in agriculture (yet caters for 2/3rds of rural youth
employment)
 Limited access to land
 Unequal land distribution and landlessness unfavorable to youth
 Customary practices and tenure unfavorable to youth
 Derived land rights unfavorable to long term investment
 Land-related Solutions:
 Raise productivity of agriculture by improving tenure security over
communal and individual lands (it also helps land rental markets)
 Increase youth access to land through:
 Land rental (and sales) markets
 Redistributing land
 Social welfare to the retired as incentive to release land to the youth

3. Detailed Interventions
 Remove controls and restrictions on land rent and rental transactions - Uganda and
Ethiopia
 Pilot and scale up land transfer programs - Malawi, South Africa, Brazil
 Social welfare for the retired to entice land transfer to youth – Mexico
 Reform laws to counter customary biases against youth land rights (land,
inheritance, marriage and divorce laws) - Ethiopia
 Accelerate registration of individual land rights through systematic land titling -
Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar
 Accelerate registration of communal land rights with allocations for youth –
Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda
 Increase transparency & efficiency in land transactions through decentralization,
computerized LIS, and modernization of survey & mapping infrastructure -
Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania
 Promote strong civil society institutions to improve awareness, monitor and
advocate for reforms of customs, policies and procedures that limit access to land
for youth

4. THANK YOU