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Africa’s Structural Transformation Challenge and the Role of Agriculture

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Source: Land Matrix (2014)

Figure 1: Countries of origin and large-scale land-based investments, according to
size and number of deals

Sources: China’s White Papers (PRC 2011; 2014)

Figure 2 and 3: Breakdown of China’s foreign aid by sectors

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