The last couple of years have been characterized by a “rediscovery” of agriculture as a sector for strategic activity. This sector had been gradually relegated both in the public policy agenda for whom the myths of an essentially urban growth and provision of agricultural produce at moderate cost contributed to maintain this chronic indifference, as well as in private investors’ strategies discouraged by the low financial margins and the risks inherent to this activity.

Author: Ward Anseeuw, Antoine Ducastel and Jean-Jacques Gabas

Published by: Land and Deals Politics Initiative (2011)