Gendered Incidence and Impact of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure System

• Tác giả: Klaus Deininger
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 916.89 Geography of and travel in Africa
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 310301
• Chủ đề: 1. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; 2. GENDER; 3. LAND TENURE; 4. POVERTY REDUCTION; 5. SMALLHOLDERS

Tóm tắt

Malawi's recent passage of Land Acts provide an opportunity to clarify different aspects of the country's land tenure in an integrated way. To assess whether doing so might be economically justified, we explore incidence and impact of tenure insecurity among smallholders. Insecurity is not only widespread with 22 per cent of land users being concerned about losing their land but is also associated with a productivity loss of 12 per cent for female operators, equivalent to US14 million per year at the national level, enough to pay for a nation-wide tenure regularization program in two to three years.