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Does Smallholder Land Titling Facilitate Agricultural Growth?: An Analysis of the Determinants and Effects of Smallholder Land Titling in Zambia

Sitko, Nicholas J.; Chamberlin, Jordan; Hichaambwa, Munguzwe - In: World Development 64 (2014) C, pp. 791-802

Zambia’s land policies privilege agricultural land alienation by wage earners over local smallholder farmers. As a result, land title holders are not statistically significantly different from non-title holders in terms of agricultural productivity, despite greater access to investment capital...

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Sources of Agricultural Productivity Growth in Central Asia: The Case of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Lerman, Zvi; Sedik, David J. - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, … - 2009

The paper examines agricultural production and productivity growth in two Central Asian countries – Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Both countries are characterized by a significant shift of resources from the traditional Soviet model of collective agriculture to more market-compliant individual...

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Sources of Agricultural Productivity Growth in Central Asia

Lerman, Zvi; Sedik, David J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

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Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara:

Nin-Pratt, Alejandro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2015

and development (R&D), highlighting the need to facilitate farmers access to technology, markets, and the necessary … output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the … appropriate technology hypothesis, advanced countries invent technologies that are compatible with their own factor mix, but these …

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Religious faith and agricultural growth: exploring some correlations in Africa

Nkamleu, Guy Blaise - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study investigates the relationship between religious beliefs and agricultural growth in Africa. Empirical analyses are undertaken using panel data of a representative sample of 26 countries, covering the period 1970-2000. The countries analyzed were classified into three groups; countries...

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Policy impacts under alternative land market regimes in rural China

Kleinwechter, Ulrich; Grethe, Harald - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

In this paper we apply a simulation model of a village economy in Guizhou province, China, to assess impacts of trade reform at the household and the village level under alternative land market regimes. Putting special emphasis on the modeling of household migration a trade reform scenario is...

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The Implications of Skewed Risk Perception for a Dutch Coastal Land Market: Insights from an Agent-Based Computational Economics Model

Filatova, Tatiana; Parker, Dawn Cassandra; van der … - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 40 (2011) 3

Dutch coastal land markets are characterized by high amenity values but are threatened by potential coastal hazards, leading to high potential damage costs from flooding. Yet, Dutch residents generally perceive low or no flood risk. Using an agent-based land market model and Dutch survey data on...

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Land Markets in the Three Candidate Countries of the EU

Bojnec, Stefan - Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) - 2011

Factor Markets Coordination: Centre for European Policy

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Coordination and allocation on land markets under increasing scale economies and heterogeneous actors - An experimental study

Balmann, Alfons; Kellermann, Konrad; Larsen, Karin; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010

Economies of scale and scope are often not exploited in Western agriculture. A general reason is probably that various types of transaction costs limit coordination among farmers. A more specific explanation is that coordination on land markets or machinery cooperation is difficult to achieve...

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How to Approach a Market? A Theoretical Concept for Defining and Describing Land Markets

Hurrelmann, Annette - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2002

Land markets have received a considerable amount of attention in economic literature. Since the treatment of the topic covers various approaches, areas, and questions, it seems desirable to attempt an overview of the results. This paper devises a way in which to present a complete picture of the...

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