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 two margins of tenure security, whether a household...

The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...

The main objective of this study is to identify the new patterns of land acquisitons in Argentina. However, data on land purchased and sold is not readily available and generating it would take a long and complex effort. On the other hand, circumstantial evidence and the general knowledge of the...

This paper argues that the link between access to land and food security is ill-addressed in the context of urban and peri-urban areas of Ethiopia. It states that most cities and towns in Ethiopia are located on arable fertile farmland. Their expansion, which is inevitable as the urban...