Does Land Tenure Systems Affect Sustainable Agricultural Development?

Akram, Nida; Akram, Muhammad Waqar; Wang, Hongshu; Mehmood, Ayesha

doi:10.3390/su11143925

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“…Since organic production efficiency is not as impressive as that of conventional farming, it is integral to determine the productivity enhancing factors for sustainable agriculture. Akram, Akram [21] affirmed from a strategy perspective that superior comprehension of the relative adequacy of farmland under various arrangements can be a decent delineation of the degree to which land tenancy arrangements can affect the resources utilised and the comprehensive yield of farm activities.…”

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Impact of Land Use Rights on the Investment and Efficiency of Organic Farming

Akram

Wang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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This study investigated the impact of three land tenure arrangements on organic farming (OF) in terms of increment of efficiency, yield, and investment in soil-improving activities by using farm-level data gathered from three districts located at Punjab, Pakistan. A multivariate tobit model that captured the probable substitute and investment choices, as well as the endogenous nature of land tenure arrangements, has been employed in this analysis. The empirical outcomes displayed that rights of land use affected the decisions made by farmers to invest in land and to improve efficiency. In detail, owner-farmers with secure rental arrangements invested more in improving their land and productivity compared to those with unsecured lease agreements. The yield per hectare was the highest for owner cultivation farm, while sharecropper output seemed the lowest, which are in agreement with the hypothesis of Marshallian inefficiency.

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Impact of Land Use Rights on the Investment and Efficiency of Organic Farming

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Wang

et al. 2019

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“…Land leaseholders hold land rights for a defined time [70]. A related case about land tenure systems and investment decisions in sustainable agricultural practices in Pakistan shows "full" landowners investing more into soil improvement measures than "lease contract" land ownership holders [71]. In contrast, findings from another study conducted in Iowa, USA show that land "leaseholders" were more likely to practice conservation tillage than "full landowners," indicating possible behavioral changes with time [72].…”

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Linking Land Tenure and Integrated Watershed Management—A Review

Katusiime

Schütt

2020

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Land tenure is given attention in the general discussions on conservation and management of natural resources, but the necessary holistic approach to understand the linkages is less considered. Thus, we considered a watershed as a unit of reference and Integrated Watershed Management as a holistic land and water resources management approach with various roles and touchpoints with land tenure issues. To examine the role of land tenure on the management of natural resources in watersheds, we reviewed and compiled literature that captures watershed issues, integrating aspects of land tenure, and aiming to identify the key land tenure roles, dynamics, and its influences on integrated watershed management. Land tenure is observed playing various roles in watersheds and, thus, also on integrated watershed management as an approach—as a driver of change, influence for investment decisions, an incentive for adoption of practices, and leading to sustainability. Land tenure dynamics range from land tenure security, land tenure forms, land access and acquisition modalities, and how these aspects of land tenure relate with integrated watershed management.

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“…The latter two components relate to indicators of product quality, good management of raw materials but also of waste, as well as social involvement and contribution to employment. Sustainable exploitation encourages the promotion of products, social equity and collective work to create the necessary links between agriculture and its territory (Akram et al, 2019).…”

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“…The link between land tenure security and agricultural productivity is therefore a relatively new subject (Singirankabo and Ertsen, 2020). In Tunisia, there are several land tenure statuses, as follow: 1) private properties known as family inheritance and 2) properties owned by rental contract with the state over a long period of time known as Farming Enhancement Corporation (FEC) (Akram et al, 2019). The organizational and economic mechanism of land ownership and land tenure is an integrity between land relations management system and economic influence methods of this system (Trukhachev et al, 2015).…”

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Evaluation of Farms’ Sustainability According to Land Tenure in Mornag, Tunisia

Gara

Aounallah

Ajabi

2020

Caraka Tani J. Sustain. Agric.

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<p>In Tunisia the main objective of sustainable agriculture is to improve agricultural systems by creating more wealth and meeting the needs of the population without compromising those of future generations. It turned out that confusion and lack of clarity of ownership status of agricultural land would lead to instability in agricultural sustainability by having a negative impact on social and economic prosperity and environment preservation. Within this environmental concern, the current research constitutes an assessment of the level of sustainability of different farms in Tunisia where problems of land ownership still exist. The current research is based on the Farm Sustainability Indicators method (standing for: <em>‘Indicateurs de durabilité des exploitations agricoles </em>or IDEA). This case study employed IDEA method which provides operational content to compare the sustainability concept at the farm level, based on the factor of ‘land tenure status’. In Tunisia, the lack of clear land ownership affects the output of agriculture that is why it is valuable to assess the impact of land properties status on farms’ agricultural sustainability. Hence, we distinguished two groups of farms: Private Farms (PF) (inherited from father to son) and Farming Enhancement Corporation (FEC) (state’s lands leased by farmers for many years). The results showed that land tenure has impact on farms sustainability. PF are more sustainable on both agro-ecological scale (49.2) and socio-territorial scale (48); compared to FEC (agro-ecological: 44.5 and socio-territorial: 46). PF favor integrated systems and the production of field crops and fodder crops and they attach greater importance to their employees’ training.</p>

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Does Land Tenure Systems Affect Sustainable Agricultural Development?

Cited by 41 publications

References 31 publications

Impact of Land Use Rights on the Investment and Efficiency of Organic Farming

Impact of Land Use Rights on the Investment and Efficiency of Organic Farming

Linking Land Tenure and Integrated Watershed Management—A Review

Evaluation of Farms’ Sustainability According to Land Tenure in Mornag, Tunisia

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