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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam
Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …
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Tenurial security and agricultural investment : evidence from Vietnam
Bellemare, Marc F.; Chua, Kenn; Santamaria, Julieth; Khoa Vu - 2018
In Vietnam, all lands belong to the state, who assigns usufruct rights to those lands to individuals and households. In 1993, the state gave 20-year usufruct rights to growers of annual crops, and 50-year usufruct rights to growers of perennial crops. In 2013, as the usufruct rights of growers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874114
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REDD+ as performance-based aid : general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway
Angelsen, Arild - 2013
REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective; the policy focus has changed from payments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210658
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Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa : pilot evidence from Rwanda
Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Deininger, Klaus W.; Goldstein, … - 2011
Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009377240
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The effects of rural land right security on labour structural transformation and urbanization : evidence from Thailand
Chankrajang, Thanyaporn - 2012
This paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of the impacts of secure rural agricultural land rights on labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on Thailand. Using province-level panel data and instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530934
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Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform : tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa
Boone, Catherine - 2017
Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607257
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The effects of land titling in Tanzania
Aikaeli, Jehovaness; Markussen, Thomas - 2017
We use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of formal, private land property rights (written...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777014
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Local transformation in rural Vietnam : a commune level analysis
Beck, Ulrik - 2015
This study documents the local transformation of rural Vietnamese communes in 12 different provinces from 2006 to 2014. Three key areas are considered, namely occupational and agricultural choice; provision of public goods and infrastructure as well as land markets. While many areas showed great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317153
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Land issues in Vietnam 2006 - 14 : markets, property rights, and investment
Markussen, Thomas - 2015
This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Viet Nam from a number of different angles. The VARHS provides panel data at plot as well as household level and I use this rich data set to present descriptive results on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337152
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PROCEDE : a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in Mexico
De Ita, Ana - 2022
This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform's objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the different actors involved. It delves into the main...
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