Key Policy Message: - Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia. - The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country of low population density is partially reconciled...

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

Food Security Research Project (FSRP) and Division of Agricultural Statistics (DSA) Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Forestry MINAGRI MINAGRI

Resultados das Investigações do Departmento de Análise de Políticas, MADER, Direcção de Economia, em collaboração com a Universidade Estatal de Michigan

Research results from the Department of Policy Analysis, MADER, Directorate of Economics

Resultados de pesquisa do Departmento de Análise de Políticas, MADER, Direcção de Economia

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

This paper summarizes empirical results from a synthesis of a set of country studies undertaken by Michigan State University and partner institutions in five African countries, each of which is based upon large-scale rural household surveys. The results demonstrate that the post-death land/labor...