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This paper analyzes the relationship between road investments and cropland expansion over the past three decades and then evaluates rural development outcomes near conflict events over the last decade. It reviews infrastructure constraints across the four Lake Chad countries, alongside environmental shrinkage of Lake Chad that intensifies water scarcity and fragility.","Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nLake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum | Development for Peace  \nTechnical Paper 6.  \nBuilding Rural Development in the Lake Chad Region  \nBrian Blankespoor (World Bank)  \n260   \n7.1 Introduction  \nLimited market accessibility, and more recently conflict, hinder agricultural production and therefore pose major challenges to the economic recovery and development of the Lake Chad region. More than 250 million people live in the four countries of the Lake Chad region, where the vast majority of the people depend on agricultural activities for their livelihoods. Compounding limited paved roads in agricultural areas is the occurrence of numerous violent events from the decade long insurgence of Boko Haram near Lake Chad. Displaced and conflict-affected households face limited market access and economic opportunities to earn income (FEWS NET, 2021) . Therefore, it is very timely and crucial to understand the links between these challengesand agricultural activities.  \nThe objective of this paper is to gain insight on the current state of rural development in the Lake Chad countries by examining the relation between road investments and cropland expansion over the past three decades following the framework in Berg et al. (2018) and then by investigating rural development in proximity to conflict events arisen by the insurgence of Boko Haram this past decade.  \nOver the past several years, roads have improved in the Lake Chad region (Magrin et al., 2018), yet limited paved roads and road maintenance continues to be a challenge. Nigeria has one of the largest road networks in West Africa in terms of length of roads. However, the percentage of national roads in a bad state increased from 23 percent in 1985 to 60 percent in 2010 (Federal Government of Nigeria, 2010) . The other three countries have less paved roads. The concentration of roads in Niger is mainly in the south along the West-East route of Niamey to Nguime via Diffa as well as the a triangle including Agadez, Tahoua and Zinder. Chad has limited paved roads, which are mainly concentrated in the capital region. The roads in Cameroon connect the main port of Douala and the administrative cities including the capital  \nYaoundé . Unpaved roads continue to pose challenges during the rainy season.  \nConnectivity is very important to the local economy and cross-border trade. Previous literature demonstrates that road infrastructure is conducive to regional trade and growth where it can facilitate local economic growth with the reduction in input and transportation costs, while connecting the potential for higher prices of crops (Crawford et al., 2003; Redding and Turner, 2015; Berg et al., 2017; Aggarwal, 2018; Henderson et al., 2017; Jedwab and Storeygard, 2020; Storeygard, 2016; Jedwaband Storeygard, 2019) . In Nigeria, roads can facilitate growth of the non-agricultural sector (Ali et al., 2015) and improve access to market that has been linked to the adoption of modern technologies (Damania et al., 2017) . Even so, Chamberlin et al. (2014) show that suit able land remains uncultivated in Sub-Saharan Africa due to limited transport access. Using panel methods over which significant road development took place from 1970 to 2010 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Berg et al. (2018) demonstrate a modest impact of improved market access on cropland expansion and suggestive evidence of impactson the local intensity of croplands.  \nNot only are roads crucial to the Lake Chad region, but these countries are also linked to the water resources of Lake Chad, which is a large area natural transboundary resource that supports local livelihoods including farming, livestock, and fisheries (Déby Itno et al., 2015) . Due to environmental changes and human activities, Lake Chad has shrunk approximately 90 percent from 1960 levels, when it was the world’s sixth largest inland water body. 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