 | Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity
September 9, 2009 Mercatus On Policy Daniel Sacks,
Karol Boudreaux |
| Achieving land tenure reform is by no means an easy or quick process. However, the benefits over the long term can lead to substantial gains for smallholder farmers’ competitiveness.
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 | Halting Hunger: Long-term Solutions to Systemic Problems in African Agriculture
July 24, 2009 Mercatus Policy Series Daniel Sacks |
| Government intervention and interference in agricultural markets prevents the growth of commercial agricultural sectors and decreases the ability of African farmers to improve their standards of living through agriculture. To combat hunger and to encourage economic development, African governments need to embark on reforms that allow farmers to use agriculture to improve their lives.
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 | Fixing Famine: How Technology and Incentives Can Help Feed Africa
June 10, 2009 Mercatus Policy Series Daniel Sacks,
Jasson Urbach |
| This Policy Comment presents four types of simple technologies that can make small plots of lands more productive and increase farmers’ outputs and incomes: hybrid and genetically modified seeds, greenhouses, irrigation, and plug seedlings. If African governments reduce barriers against these technologies, the people can mitigate hunger and begin to address the larger systemic problems.
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 | Starving for Change
November 3, 2008 Mercatus On Policy Daniel Sacks,
Karol Boudreaux |
| The United States government spends over two billion dollars a year on food aid, supposedly to help poor, hungry people around the world fight off starvation. However, much of this money is not helping the hungry, but instead supports U.S. farmers, shipping companies, and food manufacturers.
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 | Planting Seeds of Hope
January 11, 2008 Mercatus On Policy Daniel Sacks,
Karol Boudreaux |
| Despite tremendous worldwide economic progress over the past 50 years, hunger and food insecurity remain the daily reality for people around the world. In Africa alone, millions struggle against the ravages of hunger. However, one innovation, the Combi-Pack is showing great potential to reduce hunger and poverty among smallholder farmers in South Africa.
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 | Perking up the Economy: Coffee in Rwanda
November 1, 2007 Mercatus On Policy Daniel Sacks,
Karol Boudreaux |
| Since the post-genocide deregulation of the coffee industry, entrepreneurship is now flourishing, international trade volume is increasing, human capital is developing, income and employment are increasing, and most surprisingly, grass-roots reconciliation is taking place. |
