Commodity-level analysis illustrates the size of opportunities and the importance of technology. In many African countries with large amounts of suitable but currently uncultivated land, transfers of technology could pro- vide large benefits to local populations. To reduce risks and increase benefits, greater effort will be needed to identify local comparative advantage, assess the technical viability of proposed investments, improve weak institutional frameworks for land governance, and level the playing field for smallholder competitiveness. A closer look at the underlying data (yield gap, availability of uncultivated area, and area cultivated per rural inhabitant as a proxy for farm size) for some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the.
