Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Market Participation: Evidence from Ethiopia

Deininger, Klaus; Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Alemu, Tekie

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“…In Vietnam, awarding certificates prompted higher investment in perennials and prompted households, especially the poor, to spend more time in non-agricultural activities (Do and Iyer 2008). In Ethiopia land certification helped to empower women and led to increased productivity as well as land market transactions (Deininger et al 2011a). Titles that include women in Argentina are also credited with having helped to reduce fertility and increase investment in children's human capital (Galiani and Schargrodsky 2004) although impacts arise through investment in physical and human capital rather than through improved credit access (Galiani and Schargrodsky 2010).…”

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“…Second, recent escalation of demand highlights that traditional systems are not without shortcomings, in particular (i) weak protection of community lands against abuse, e.g., by chiefs who perceive themselves as landlords rather than custodians of a vital community asset (Berry 2009); (ii) adoption of rules that explicitly disadvantage migrants and nonnationals even if they have long-established use rights (Colin and Ayouz 2006;Fenske 2010); and (iii) discrimination against women who generally have great difficulty holding on to land in the case of divorce or death of their husband (Deininger and Castagnini 2006). Third, low-cost and participatory mechanisms for land adjudication have been shown to be viable (Deininger et al 2008) and to lead to equitable outcomes that allow clear productivity gains over time (Deininger et al 2011a). This has not only brought land back to the policy agenda (Place 2009) but also creates a need for empirical evidence to help base decisions in this area on evidence regarding what works and what does not in a specific situation rather than broad generalizations and preconceived notions.…”

Section: The Debate On Land Tenure Formalization In Africamentioning

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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Ali¹,

Deininger²,

Goldstein³

2011

Policy Research Working Papers

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Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects that is used to evaluate the pilot for this programme points to three main effects; namely, (i) improved land access for legally married women and better recordation of inheritance rights; (ii) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly pronounced for women; and (iii) a reduction in land market activity rather than distress sales. Implications for programme design and policy are discussed.

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Section: Empirical Evidencementioning

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Section: The Debate On Land Tenure Formalization In Africamentioning

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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Ali¹,

Deininger²,

Goldstein³

2011

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…Moreover, transfer of land rights through sales and exchange are not allowed which limits transferability of land between migrants and non-migrants (Zewdu andMalek 2013, World Bank 2015). 17 Land tenure insecurity and fear of losing the allocated land have further discouraged rural outmigration which has undermined farmers' incentives to make land investments, crucial to increase productivity levels, and slowed down the reallocation of labor to 31 non-farm and other remunerative activities in the urban sector (Deininger et al 2011, Chamberlain and Schmidt 2012, De Brauw and Mueller 2012. Moreover, this land tenure system has slowed down the rate of urbanization and thus the growth of cities in Ethiopia.…”

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Cities and Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Version: February 2016 AbstractDue to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, a larger number of farmers is living in the rural hinterland providing food to urban residents. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between proximity to a city and the production behavior of rural staple crop producers. More in particular, we analyze unique data from teff producing farmers in major producing areas around Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. We find that farmers more closely located to Addis Ababa face higher wages and land rental prices, but because they receive higher teff prices they have better incentives to intensify production. Moreover, we observe that modern input use, land and labor productivity, and profitability in teff production improve with urban proximity. There is a strong and significant direct effect of urban proximity, which is suggested to be related with more use of formal factor markets, less transaction costs, and better access to information. In contrast, we do not find strong and positive relationships of rural population density increases -as an alternative source of agricultural transformation -as they seem to lead to immiserizing effects in these settings. Our results show that urban proximity should be considered as an important determinant of the process of agricultural intensification and transformation in developing countries.

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“…When the potential endogeneity of property rights perceptions is taken into account, transfer rights are found to have a significant positive impact (at a 10% testing level) on expectations that forestland will not be reallocated (see columns (2) and (3) in Table 3). But the estimated coefficients of use rights and mortgage rights do not differ significantly from zero, nor do the interaction terms of the three types of property rights.…”

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“…In the study of farmland tenure security, an abundance of literature has identified three effects that land tenure security may have on economic outcomes, i.e., investment effect, market effect, and credit effect [2][3][4]. The decentralization of forest management in some developing countries, for example, Vietnam, Ecuador, and China, has allowed similar research to be extended to the area of forest tenure.…”

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Does Property Rights Integrity Improve Tenure Security? Evidence from China’s Forest Reform

Zhou

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of land property rights integrity, subdivided into use rights, mortgage rights, and transfer rights, on household perceptions of long-term tenure security in China. To this end, we establish a theoretical framework that links China's collective forest tenure reforms undertaken since 2003 to property rights integrity and two sources of tenure (in)security based on property rights theory: forestland reallocation and expropriation. Probit models are applied in the empirical analysis to household data collected in Jiangxi province in 2011 and 2013. The results indicate that household perceptions of tenure insecurity resulting from forestland reallocation expectations are affected by transfer rights, whereas household perceptions of insecurity resulting from forestland expropriation expectations are not affected by forestland rights. We thus suggest that it is crucial for policymakers to identify the sources of local property rights insecurity before they take steps to strengthen land tenure security. This paper contributes to the available literature on the relationship between property rights integrity and tenure security by identifying different sources of tenure insecurity, emphasizing the effect of property rights integrity on long-term tenure security, and taking into account the potential endogeneity problem.

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Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Market Participation: Evidence from Ethiopia

Cited by 256 publications

References 37 publications

Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Cities and Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

Does Property Rights Integrity Improve Tenure Security? Evidence from China’s Forest Reform

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