Land Rental and Sales Markets in Paraguay

Abstract

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Land rental markets in the process of rural structural transformation: Productivity and equity impacts from China

“…With an increasing body of literature supporting the importance of land rental in Africa (Benin et al, 2005;Chimhowu and Woodhouse, 2006;Deininger et al, 2007;Baland et al, 2007) but also in other regions (Deininger et al, 2003;Gine, 2005;Swinnen and Vranken, 2006;Marsh et al, 2006;Masterson, 2007), few studies have analyzed its impact and whether it fully realizes existing potential. Doing so for China provides analytical and empirical insights.…”

Soy, Cotton, and the Final Atlantic Forest Frontier

“…For the distribution for agricultural land in eastern Paraguay, Gini coefficients were acquired from recent research publications, including those produced by the FAO (2007) and the Levy Institute of Economics (Masterson 2007a(Masterson , 2007b. Additional data regarding the number and size of holdings was compiled from census data (Dirección General de Estadísticas, Encuestas y Censos [DGEEC] 2002[DGEEC] , 2005[DGEEC] , 2009FAO 1997FAO , 2007 and agricultural reports (e.g., Cámara Algodonera del Paraguay [CADELPA] 2007; Aquino Cañete 2008; Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, Paraguay [MAG] 1991[MAG] , 2006[MAG] , 2007.…”

“…In the 1980s, laborintensive crops such as coffee, tung, and tobacco began to disappear from the ranks of the nation's most valuable agricultural exports. By (2007) and Masterson (2007a).…”

“…In 1981 and 1991, Paraguay's Gini coefficient for the distribution of agricultural land was the highest in the world (FAO 2007). For eastern Paraguay this reached as high as 0.94 (Masterson 2007a). In 1991, 884 farms possessed 56 percent of the nation's agricultural land (FAO 2007), the largest of these measuring 147 km 2 .…”

“…In 1991, 884 farms possessed 56 percent of the nation's agricultural land (FAO 2007), the largest of these measuring 147 km 2 . During the 1990s, as the last of the latifundia properties were parceled, the size of the nation's largest property decreased to 16 km 2 and the Gini coefficient dropped to 0.86 (Masterson 2007a). Today agricultural properties greater than 1 km 2 amount to more than 70 percent of all agricultural land (Table 1) and the largest farms produce soy, not cotton (MAG 2007;Riós and Colonel 2007;DGEEC 2009).…”