VoxTalks Economics

S7 Ep37: When development creates conflict

Aug 2, 2024 · 21 min · Season 7 · Episode 37 · 20.9 MB
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Economic development, especially in Africa, often implies improving crop agriculture. But many rural populations are pastoralists, grazing their cattle on land that policymakers have earmarked for crops. So is good news for crop farmers also a threat to the pastoralists’ way of life? Eoin McGuirk tells Tim Phillips about how some apparently successful development projects create conflict between communities.