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Do farmers care about rented land? : a multi-method study on land tenure and soil conservation
Leonhardt, Heidi; Salhofer, Klaus; Penker, Marianne - Agricultural Land Markets - Efficiency and Regulation - 2018
Does ownership status of agricultural land determine farmers' soil use behaviour? Why (not)? We investigate this old … decisions differ between rented and owned plots. In addition, we analyse interviews with Austrian farmers with the aim of … study, and qualify these findings in the qualitative part. If at all, interviewed farmers treat rented and owned land …
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276040
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Tenure Security and Soil Conservation in an Overlapping Generation Rural Economy
Eskander, Shaikh - 2017
Tenure security and subsistence needs influence the choice between unexploited topsoil and investment in children's human capital as the mode of transfer of wealth. We develop an overlapping generations model of a representative rural household to inform this choice. Using a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972284
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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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How institutions shape land deals : the role of corruption
Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2014
Large-scale land acquisitions, or "land grabs", concentrate in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendly setting caused by a weak institutional framework. We argue that corrupt elites exploit this given institutional set-up to strike deals with international...
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Impact of Land Certification on Land Rental Market Participation in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia
Holden, Stein T.; Deininger, Klaus; Ghebru, Hosaena Hagos - 2007
There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development in Africa and whether land reforms can be pro-poor. This paper uses unique household panel data from Tigray region in Ethiopia to assess the impact of the 1998 low-cost land registration and certification...
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Collective Property Leads to Household Investments : Lessons from Land Titling in Afro-Colombian Communities
Peña, Ximena - 2016
In the developing world, collective land titling has become an important tool for recognizing the historical presence of ethnic communities and safeguarding their rights to occupy and manage their territories. However, little is known about the average impact of these titling processes on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991779
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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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Institutional Analysis of Land Tenure System in Post-Socialist Russia : Actors, Rules and Land Use
Fadeeva, Olga - 2020
Governing land tenure and particularly ownership rights to land in post-socialist Russia is a long-term process that involves changes in norms, rules and administrative procedures. We analyse the land privatization reform in the context of evolving institutional limitations caused by the...
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