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 … will transfer land out of the hands of smallholders and into the hands of 'those who can make most efficient or productive …

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …

distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …

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 documentation of ownership) on agricultural investment, land ownership …

agricultural investments and productivity in areas with landlord-based colonial land tenure systems. Our updated data finds that …

likely to be cleared where economic returns to agriculture and pasture are higher, either due to more favorable … activity, land tenure security, and community demographics do not show a consistent association with either higher or lower …