Property rights imperfections and asset allocation: Co-ownership in Bulgaria

Vranken, Liesbet; Macours, Karen; Noev, Nivelin; Swinnen, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2010.12.003

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“…In all these countries, the man/land ratio was over 0.2 persons per hectare, and total factor productivity increased strongly during early 4 There are other factors that may play a role. For example, Fredriksson, Bailey, Davidova, Gorton, and Traikova (2017) and Vranken, Macours, Noev, and Swinnen (2011) show uncertainty of property rights on land or output leads to land abandonment. However, these factors may both constrain and enhance smallholder growth, depending on imperfections in property rights.…”

Section: Determinants Of Smallholder Growthmentioning

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Smallholder agriculture in transition economies

Burkitbayeva

Swinnen

2018

Journal of Agrarian Change

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In this paper, we analyse how smallholder farms have evolved during the transition process in former communist countries and how this process has differed across countries and commodities. The role of smallholders in agriculture differs among transition countries, and this diversity is due to a combination of factors, including capital, labour and land endowments, income levels, scale economies, market imperfections, and reform choices. Institutions to access inputs and sell outputs affect the efficiency and survival of smallholders. In the past decade, the share of smallholders in land use and production has declined significantly as younger and more dynamic smallholders have become integrated in modern value chains, whereas older, less dynamic farmers have (semi‐)retired, producing only for household consumption.

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Section: Determinants Of Smallholder Growthmentioning

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Smallholder agriculture in transition economies

Burkitbayeva

Swinnen

2018

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…Approximately 30% of farmland in Western Ukraine used during the time of the Soviet Union was abandoned after its breakup (Baumann et al, 2011;Kuemmerle et al, 2010). A high share of abandoned land (21%) was also reported for Bulgaria (Vranken et al, 2011). According to the FAO small Balkan countries which suffer from a troubled history (e.g., Bosnia-Herzegowina, Albania) also have vast resources of fallow agricultural land (Faostat, 2012;Witmer & O'Loughlin, 2009).…”

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Biomass production potential fromPopulusshort rotation systems inRomania

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The aim of this study was to assess the potential of biomass production by short rotation poplar in Romania without constraining agricultural food production. Located in the eastern part of Europe, Romania provides substantial land resources suitable for bioenergy production. The process-oriented biogeochemical model Landscape DNDC was used in conjunction with the forest-growth model PSIM to simulate the yield of poplar grown in short-rotation coppice at different sites in Romania. The model was validated on five sites with different climatic conditions in Central Europe. Using regional site conditions, with climatic parameters and organic carbon content in soil being the most important, the biomass production potential of poplar plantations was simulated for agricultural areas across Romania.Results indicated a mean productivity of 12.2 ± 0.5 t ha À1 year À1 of poplar coppices on arable land in Romania. The highest yields were simulated for lowland areas in the south-east and west and for the Mures valley, whereas the lowest yields -due to either temperature or water limitations -were found for the mountainous regions, the Danube valley, and the region west of Bucharest. The amount of abandoned arable land in the past 10 years indicates that around 10% of cropping land in production in 1999 (approximately 1 million ha) is available for bioenergy production systems today. Production of poplar grown in short-rotation coppices on these areas would result in a yield of approximately 10 million tons of wood per year. The energy that can be generated by conversion of poplar short rotation coppice biomass may contribute up to approximately 8% of the national energy demand if these set-aside areas are used for lignocellulosic bioenergy.

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“…Another potential application of RD can be when legal rules might generate thresholds determining which, and in what ways, different parcels or individuals are affected by the intervention. Vranken et al (2011) thus consider the effects of the restitution of land to former owners and their heirs at liquidation of former communist cooperatives and state farms in the early 1990s in Bulgaria. They exploit the discontinuity generated by a law preventing excessive land fragmentation, which had plots below a given size (0.3 acres) remain undivided in co-ownership among the different heirs.…”

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Impact of land administration programs on agricultural productivity and rural development: existing evidence, challenges and new approaches

Gignoux¹,

Macours²,

Wren‐Lewis³

2012

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Investment in land administration projects is often considered key for agricultural productivity and rural development in developing countries. But the evidence on the effect of such interventions is remarkably mixed. This article reviews the literature and discusses a number of challenges related to the analysis of the impacts of land administration programs, focusing on developing countries where the starting position is one of land administration systems based on the Napoleonic code, with existing individual rights that may be imperfect and insecure. We examine a set of conceptual and methodological challenges including: 1. a conceptual challenge related to the need to unbundle property rights and to establish the plausible causal chain for land administration interventions; 2. the existence of other binding constraints on productivity, implying the need to consider heterogeneities in policy impacts and the complementarity between property rights and other productive interventions; 3. the need to account for spillover effects of land interventions on non-targeted households; and 4. methodological challenges related to the causal identification of the impacts of such interventions.

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Property rights imperfections and asset allocation: Co-ownership in Bulgaria

Cited by 23 publications

References 37 publications

Smallholder agriculture in transition economies

Smallholder agriculture in transition economies

Biomass production potential fromPopulusshort rotation systems inRomania

Impact of land administration programs on agricultural productivity and rural development: existing evidence, challenges and new approaches

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