Nearly every major study of African agriculture states that the lack of quality roads is one of, if not the, major constraint to agricultural input and output markets, and hence productivity growth and poverty alleviation.
Road projects are some of the largest funded donor projects in Africa, and the largest cause of resettlement. And yet there is surprisingly little rigorous, empirical research dealing precisely with the multiple links between rural transport, poverty, and agrarian change in Africa.
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This article comes from the IDS Bulletin 36.2 (2005) Transport, Poverty and Agrarian Change in Africa: Models, Mechanisms and New Ways Forward
