Rural poverty and access to land in developing countries: theory and evidence from Guatemala

Bandeira, Pablo Matias; Sumpsi, José María

doi:10.1080/02255189.2011.596025

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“…In a result separate from the expansion of new nonfamily services, we found that a higher proportion of land area devoted to agricultural uses speeds women's entry into parenthood. This finding provides support to the land‐labor demand hypothesis, which argues that people in poor, rural agricultural societies maintain high fertility to keep up with labor‐intensive land cultivation practices (Bandeira and Sumpsi 2009; Cain 1985; Shreffler and Dodoo 2009; Stokes et al. 1986; Thomas 1991).…”

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confidence: 64%

Community Context, Land Use, and First Birth

Ghimire

Axinn

2010

Rural Sociology

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This paper examines the influence of community context and land use on the monthly odds of first birth in a society in the midst of dramatic fertility transition. The theoretical framework guiding our work predicts that proximity to non-family services should delay first births by creating opportunities for competing non-family activities and spreading new ideas that change expectations about family life. On the other hand, living in agricultural settings that provide opportunities for higher returns to the child labor should speed first births. We use a longitudinal, multilevel, mixed-method data from the Nepalese Himalayas to test these predictions. The empirical results reveal that non-family services during childhood and during early adulthood both have important independent influences on the odds of first birth. Also, as predicted, a high density of agricultural land use affects the odds of first births in the opposite direction, speeding first births. This clear pattern of contrasting effects provides important new evidence of the contextual dynamics that produce watershed changes in post-marital birth timing.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Community Context, Land Use, and First Birth

Ghimire

Axinn

2010

Rural Sociology

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“…The theoretical framework in which this study is conceptualized is New Institutional Economics (NIE) and Access Theory (AT). NIE describes access and usage that different people have to land and also challenges associated with the access (Bandeira and Sumpsi, 2009). Past works argued that those with influence and resources have easier access to land, and people with power can influence access to land.…”

Section: Theoretical Considerations Of Land Use System In Nigeria and Historical Evidencementioning

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“…Efforts by African governments and international benefactors in the last decades to eradicate rural poverty have not translated to the desired results (Dillon and Barrett, 2017). Africa has profited from unparalleled growth but a sizeable part of its population (especially those in rural areas) remains trapped in economic poverty (Bandeira and Sumpsi, 2009;McCullough, 2015). These articles identified 55% of sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) population estimated to be in poverty lived in rural areas and derived livelihood from agriculture.…”

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Heterogeneity of Agricultural Land Use Systems and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Relationship and Evidence from Rural Nigeria

Apata

Ogunleye

Agboola

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Several factors influencing rural-poverty in sub-Saharan-Africa, for all the factors, agricultural-land access/management and “culture of poverty” are quite dominant in literature. This study examines socio-cultural/economic factors influencing poverty and establishes linkages of heterogeneity of land-use systems. Farm-level cost–route surveys of cross-sectional national-data of 800 respondents were used for analysis. Data were analyzed by descriptive-statistics, trans-logarithmic model, and poverty-measures. Descriptive statistics depict land-ownership structure, farmer’s socio-cultural practices, and exploits of government intervention programs influenced agricultural-poverty. Trans-logarithmic coefficients results of short-run sustainability-index (SRSI), land-policy intervention variables and household-sizes are dominance factors. Also, SRSI indicated 0.69, suggesting that 69% of the farmers made unsustainable use of agricultural-land. Moreover, 92% of extremely poor respondents with large household-sizes (61.2%) seek their agricultural-land ownership by rentage, while those with land-titled documents constitute 78.6% of the non-poor. Public-policy interventions must take into account formalization of land-property rights in order to facilitate its transferability and boosting investment.

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“…On the other hand, there are studies that contest this assertion. These include Rigg's () study based on data from Southeast Asia, López and Valdés's () study in six Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru), and Bandeira and Sumpsi's () study based on data from Guatemala . Empirical results from most of these studies show that “land redistribution from large to small farmers may contribute to increasing total farm output, but may have only limited impact on household income…and welfare” (López & Valdés, , p. 8).…”

Section: Land Reform and Food Security In Global Contextmentioning

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Land Redistribution and Zero Hunger Programs: Can South Africa Reap a Triple Dividend?

Chitonge

2014

Poverty & Public Policy

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This article looks at land reform in the context of the Zero Hunger Program (ZHP) in South Africa, focusing on the potential for reducing hunger and food insecurity among smallholder and subsistence rural households. Examples and experiences from Brazil, Malawi, and Zambia, together with data from a South African case study of smallholder and subsistence farmers, are presented to illustrate the potential that an integrated approach to land reform can generate in addressing not just hunger in food‐insecure households, but also issues of equity in asset ownership and access to opportunities, as well as creating an environmentally and socially sustainable society. But there are certain conditions that should be fulfilled if this potential is to be realized.

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Rural poverty and access to land in developing countries: theory and evidence from Guatemala

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Community Context, Land Use, and First Birth

Community Context, Land Use, and First Birth

Heterogeneity of Agricultural Land Use Systems and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Relationship and Evidence from Rural Nigeria

Land Redistribution and Zero Hunger Programs: Can South Africa Reap a Triple Dividend?

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