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Fixing Famine: How Technology and Incentives Can Help Feed Africa                                                                      
Fixing Famine Cover JPGThis Policy Comment discusses four simple technologies that can make small plots of lands more productive and increase farmers’ outputs and incomes and how lifting of restrictions on these technologies can improve the lot of African farmers.

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Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept out of Africa                             

/uploadedImages/Mercatus/Publications/Starved_for_Science_Image.JPGIn this book review, Enterprise Africa! researcher Dan Sacks discusses Africa's agricultural production and the need for better technologies and seeds. Does this book hold the answer to Africa's continued agricultural problems?

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The Legal Empowerment of the Poor: Titling and Poverty Alleviation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Hastings_Law_ReviewIn this law review, Enterprise Africa! lead researcher Karol Boudreaux  focuses on the role secure property rights play in economic development. In particular, attention is paid to a policy initiative that many developing countries have pursued: titling real property.

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New Working Paper on the Role of Entrepreneurship in Conflict Reduction in Rwanda

Enterprise Africa! lead researcher Karol Boudreaux and Jutta Tobias, James Marshall Public Policy Scholar at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, have a new working paper summarizing the results from a field study into the effects of entrepreneurship in the coffee industry on reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. 

To view this paper, as well as Karol Boudreaux's other work on Rwanda, click here.

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