Current Agricultural Dilemmas in Gabon. Africa and Middle East Branch

摘要

In Gabon, revenues generated by thriving mineral, petroleum, and timber exports have produced a modern urban sector which contrasts with a countryside almost devoid of infrastructure and drained of people, especially young people. The result is that Gabon has the second highest per capita income in Africa and probably the least developed agricultural sector. This structure poses problems for the Government of Gabon, which is trying to develop large-scale, mechanized production in capital-intensive projects in the face of cheaper food imports, and at the same time attempting to launch a rural development program to overcome twenty years of neglect.