Last week, I attended the annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference in Washington, D.C. The focus this year was on data availability, collection and processing.
The conference, in its 18th year, is normally held under the theme of land and poverty. This year though at a discussion to launch an African initiative on land at the conference, former Nigeria president Olusegun Obasanjo was critical of the theme, arguing that within the continent land is a source of wealth and not poverty.
