Agriculture, Rural Livelihood, and Structural Economic Transformation in Africa
Channel: Regions Refocus
Date: 2017-12-13

Tetteh Hormeku-Ajei of Third World Network-Africa presents recommendations for rural transformation and agrarian reform encapsulated in his forthcoming paper “Agriculture, rural livelihood, and structural economic transformation in Africa.” In this 12 minute video, Tetteh identifies policies that can improve the productive capacities of the rural economy and the economic opportunities of rural producers, and calls for restructuring both the domestic economy and its embedded social relations of power, particularly around gender and class. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and regional African agendas on agriculture and trade, Tetteh articulates the need to repair fragmentations in African domestic economies and create the conditions for equitable economic development. 

Filmed at the event "African-Caribbean Cross-Regional Exchange," co-convened by Regions Refocus, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, on 14 July 2017 in New York, as a side event to the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.