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The Rwandan agrarian and land sector modernisation: confronting macro performance with lived experiences on the ground

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  • An Ansoms
  • Giuseppe Cioffo
  • Neil Dawson
  • Sam Desiere
  • Chris Huggins
  • Margot Leegwater
  • Jude Murison
  • Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka
  • Johanna Treidl
  • Julie Van Damme

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Rwanda has embarked on an ambitious policy package to modernise and professionalise the agrarian and land sector. Its reform fits into a broader call – supported by major international donors – to implement a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. After 10 years of implementation, there is increased production output and value-addition in commercialised commodity chains. These are promising results. However, poverty reduction, particularly in more recent years, seems limited. Moreover, micro-level evidence from the field calls into question the long-term sustainability of the agricultural and land sector reform. In this article, a group of researchers, having engaged in in-depth qualitative research in a variety of settings and over an extended period, bring together their main research results and combine their key findings to challenge the dominant discourse on Rwanda as a model for development.

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  • An Ansoms & Giuseppe Cioffo & Neil Dawson & Sam Desiere & Chris Huggins & Margot Leegwater & Jude Murison & Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka & Johanna Treidl & Julie Van Damme, 2018. "The Rwandan agrarian and land sector modernisation: confronting macro performance with lived experiences on the ground," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(157), pages 408-431, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:45:y:2018:i:157:p:408-431
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2018.1497590
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    1. Klara Claessens & Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka & An Ansoms, 2021. "Rethinking Communal Land Governance in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 21(2), pages 144-160, April.
    2. Marie-Luise Matthys & Patrick Illien & Sushant Acharya & Michèle Amacker & Sabin Bieri & Ildephonse Musafili & Outhoumphone Sanesathid, 2024. "The Role of High-Value Agriculture in Capability Expansion: Qualitative Insights into Smallholder Cash Crop Production in Nepal, Laos and Rwanda," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 36(1), pages 243-262, February.
    3. Sebastian Heinen, 2022. "Rwanda’s Agricultural Transformation Revisited: Stagnating Food Production, Systematic Overestimation, and a Flawed Performance Contract System," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(10), pages 2044-2064, October.
    4. Bird, Kate & Chabé-Ferret, Bastien & Simons, Alexandre, 2022. "Linking human capabilities with livelihood strategies to speed poverty reduction: Evidence from Rwanda," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    5. Clay, Nathan & Zimmerer, Karl S., 2020. "Who is resilient in Africa’s Green Revolution? Sustainable intensification and Climate Smart Agriculture in Rwanda," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    6. Sung Kyu Kim & Fiona Marshall & Neil M. Dawson, 2022. "Revisiting Rwanda’s agricultural intensification policy: benefits of embracing farmer heterogeneity and crop-livestock integration strategies," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 14(3), pages 637-656, June.
    7. Mikhail Miklyaev & Glenn Jenkins & David Shobowale, 2020. "Sustainability of Agricultural Crop Policies in Rwanda: An Integrated Cost–Benefit Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-21, December.
    8. Illien, Patrick & Bieri, Sabin, 2024. "Political settlements analysis and the study of pro-poor development: Laos and Rwanda compared," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).

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