fragmentation reduces productivity. However, producers fail to utilize about 10 percent of the country's productive land, and, in … the majority of cases, this land has been idle for at least five years. Farmers quote inefficiently-small plots as the … reason for this in few cases, casting doubt on the scope for land consolidation to solve this issue. Instead, the data are …

Although early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure rights in view of … increased demand for land, options for registration of a continuum of individual or communal rights under new laws, and the …, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of …

Although opinions on impacts of land market transfers are sharply divided, few studies explore the welfare and … productivity effects of land markets on a larger scale. This paper uses a large Indian panel spanning almost 20 years, together … with a climatic shock (rainfall) indicator, to assess the productivity and equity effects of market-mediated land transfers …

In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in …' theoretical model suggests that removing restrictions on land markets will increase landlessness among the poor, but that there …

Based on a large survey to compare the effectiveness of land markets and land reform in Colombia, the authors find that … rental and sales markets were more effective in transferring land to poor but productive producers than was administrative … land reform. The fact that land transactions were all of a short-term nature and that little land was transferred from very …

This paper analyzes land transactions between municipalities and private businesses based on official data and business … surveys in 15 regions of the Russian Federation. Since the Russian Federation passed the new Land Code in 2001, land … privatization has been officially encouraged by the federal government and in particular, land under previously privatized buildings …

the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land …