Land, power and peace: Tenure formalization, agricultural reform, and livelihood insecurity in rural Rwanda

Pritchard, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.03.012

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“…Rwandan agricultural policies have arisen from a narrative which views traditional practices of food production as archaic causes of land degradation and these policies severely affected certainty over land tenure and the ability of people to produce sufficient food to subsist or earn an income, with negative impacts disproportionately incurred by the poorest groups (Pritchard, 2013;Van Damme et al, 2014). Increased landlessness and poverty among the forest-adjacent population may have considerable implications for the demand for ecosystem services.…”

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Assessing the contribution of ecosystem services to human wellbeing: A disaggregated study in western Rwanda

Dawson

Martin

2015

Ecological Economics

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a b s t r a c tLack of attention to social complexity has created a gap between current ecosystem service research and the kind of insights needed to inform ecosystem management in the tropics. To contribute to closing this gap, this study applies a methodology for exploring complex linkages between ecosystem services and human wellbeing. This builds on emerging frameworks for studying multiple dimensions of human wellbeing, drawing on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach to human development. The approach is applied to an empirical case study of three sites adjacent to native tropical forest in western Rwanda. The value of exploring social complexity in ecosystem services research is illustrated through its contribution to understanding a) different types of values; b) disaggregation of people; c) power relations and their influence on trade-offs; d) the importance of multiple land use types in the landscape; and e) changes and their drivers at multiple scales. The analysis reveals that the majority of services valued by forest-adjacent Rwandan inhabitants are not provided by tropical forests but by other habitats. We suggest that more integrated landscape governance may offer synergistic opportunities for conservation and development.

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Assessing the contribution of ecosystem services to human wellbeing: A disaggregated study in western Rwanda

Dawson

Martin

2015

Ecological Economics

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“…Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa, and 83 percent of its 9.7 million inhabitants live in rural areas (Pritchard, 2013). Approximately 56.8 percent of the rural population is considered poor and 36.8 percent is considered extremely poor (Ansoms & McKay, 2010).…”

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Household vulnerability mapping in Africa's Rift Valley

2015

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“…Most studies on cooperatives in Rwanda are qualitative studies that focus on the functioning of and entry into cooperatives. Researchers have pointed out that cooperatives in Rwanda are top‐down and exclusive, that they undermine land tenure security and investments in improved land management practices (Ansoms, , ; Nabahungu and Visser, ; Pritchard, ). Quantitative evidence on the impact of cooperative membership on farm performance can complement these qualitative insights.…”

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Smallholder cooperatives and agricultural performance in Rwanda: do organizational differences matter?

Verhofstadt

Maertens

2014

Agricultural Economics

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Agricultural policies in Rwanda focus on agricultural intensification and increased market orientation of the smallholder farm sector. Cooperatives are seen as key vehicles in this, but little is known about their effectiveness to achieve these goals. In this article, we analyze the impact of cooperative membership on the agricultural performance of rural households in Rwanda. We use cross-sectional survey data, collected in 2012, to analyze the impact of cooperative membership on different agricultural performance indicators, including indicators on agricultural intensification, market orientation, farm revenue, and income. We use several econometric techniques to deal with potential selection bias in estimating the impact of cooperative membership, including a proxy variable method based on a willingness to pay measure and propensity score matching methods. We find that cooperative membership in general has a positive impact on farm performance but these effects are driven by specific types of cooperatives.JEL classifications: D13, O13, Q12, Q13

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Land, power and peace: Tenure formalization, agricultural reform, and livelihood insecurity in rural Rwanda

Cited by 92 publications

References 17 publications

Assessing the contribution of ecosystem services to human wellbeing: A disaggregated study in western Rwanda

Assessing the contribution of ecosystem services to human wellbeing: A disaggregated study in western Rwanda

Household vulnerability mapping in Africa's Rift Valley

Smallholder cooperatives and agricultural performance in Rwanda: do organizational differences matter?

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