Smallholders' Land Access in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Tác giả: Klaus Deininger
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 581.96 Specific topics in natural history of plants
• Thông tin xuất bản: Elsevier, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313890
• Chủ đề: 1. gender; 2. land market; 3. land rights; 4. land tenure; 5. rural development

Tóm tắt

While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use household data from 6 countries to show that there is great potential for such markets to increase productivity and equalize factor ratios. While rental markets transfer land to land-poor and labor-rich producers, their operation and thus impact may be constrained by policy restrictions. Their functioning may also be constrained by ill-defined or insecure rights that may arise from failure to fully compensate existing rights in cases of expropriation, a failure to implement more broadly land policies or to do so in a gender sensitive manner. Methodological and substantive conclusions are derived.