We argue that: (i)
most African farmers do not face a high risk of eviction;
(ii) continuous use and “conspicuous” investments
in land-based resources will further reduce this
risk; (iii) even if land is lost in, for instance, a dispute,
the investment may be partially or completely recovered,
and; (iv) the more feasible investment altematives
among farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are inexpensive
ones with modest absolute returns on - at
worst - moderately degraded land.
Under these conditions, indigenous