The influence of land tenure on agricultural investment has been widely discussed in developing countries, but the results of existing studies are mixed. A data set from the ancestral land of Leizhou Peninsula in China that differentiates land tenure arrangements in neighboring villages is used...

While tenure security is essential to effective land management, there is little empirical evidence on its environmental impact. We show that improving tenure security reduces fires. Exploiting the staggered rollout of the Hellenic Cadastre program across Greece, we find those regions covered by...

This study was undertaken to analyze the effect of land tenure system practices and farm fragmentation on technical efficiency of rice farmers under the Dadin-Kowa Irrigation Scheme (DKIS) and made use of cross-sectional data from a survey conducted on 284 rice farmers selected by multi-staged...

This chapter explores how East Asian states integrate customary claims to land into statutory land tenure systems. Studies show that state-centered land systems, which connect legal recognition of property rights to state territorial authority, often fragment and subordinate customary possessory...

While land titling is advocated to improve land and financial market functioning in developing country cities, evidence of credit market effects is limited. We use 20 years of registry data from Lesotho to assess impacts of an urban titling program overall and by component (titling vs....

In the wake of increased domestic and foreign entity rush for land in Africa, rural households remained the marginalized group in terms of access. Consequently, household’s farm investment decisions are affected. Arresting such situation calls for study of the factors driving households’...