Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Collin, Matthew; Deininger, Klaus; Dercon, Stefan; Sandefur, Justin; Zeitlin, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.06.001

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“…Also, formal lenders are more willing to accept proper titles than the papers picked up in the survey. The conclusion that households value land titles is consistent with the results in Ali et al (2016), which showed that slum dwellers were eager to obtain land titles as soon as prohibitively high costs of titling were removed.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 84%

“…a system where citizens can apply for titles on their own initiative. However, in many cases it is prohibitively expensive for ordinary households to use such a system and titling rates therefore remain low (Ali et al 2016). The unit cost of land titling can be dramatically reduced if a 'systematic', or supply-based, land titling program is implemented, i.e.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The effects of land titling in Tanzania

Aikaeli¹,

Markussen²

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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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. Abstract:We use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of formal, private land property rights (written documentation of ownership) on agricultural investment, land ownership documents nevertheless increase the market value of land substantially (more than 25 percent). One reason appears to be that well-documented private property rights facilitate the use of land as collateral for loans and therefore eases access to credit. The findings suggest that there are potentially significant, economic returns to systematic land titling in Tanzania and other countries, although more research is needed to firmly establish this conclusion.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 84%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of land titling in Tanzania

Aikaeli¹,

Markussen²

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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“…More recently, a randomized roll-out of land registration in Rwanda helped to significantly improve land rental market operation and productivity (Ali et al, 2015b), providing a basis for an incipient mortgage market secured against agricultural land (Ali et al, 2016). Land certification in Ethiopia had positive impacts on investment (Holden et al, 2009) and land market participation (Deininger et al, 2011a).…”

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Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?

2017

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While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use household data from 6 countries to show that there is great potential for such markets to increase productivity and equalize factor ratios. While rental markets transfer land to land-poor and labor-rich producers, their operation and thus impact may be constrained by policy restrictions. Their functioning may also be constrained by ill-defined or insecure rights that may arise from failure to fully compensate existing rights in cases of expropriation, a failure to implement more broadly land policies or to do so in a gender sensitive manner. Methodological and substantive conclusions are derived.

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“…Despite the increase in the number of village certifications, the uptake of individual and household titles has been very low with only 0.4 million household and individual titles being registered in 2011 (Byamugisha, ). One of the major factors behind this low uptake of title has been the high costs of formalization which are not affordable for poor households (Ali et al ., ).…”

Section: Tanzanian Land Tenure and Agribusinessesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The implementation of the Village Land Act had a slow start due to the lack of finances and administrative capacity. In 2004, former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, set up the ‘Property and Business Formalisation Programme’ (MKURABITA) with the assistance of Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto to hasten the process (Pedersen, ; Ali et al ., ; Byamugisha, ). Several pilot land formalization projects have been carried out under MKURABITA and by 2011, the number of villages that had their land registered increased to 60 per cent.…”

Section: Tanzanian Land Tenure and Agribusinessesmentioning

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Agribusinesses, Smallholder Tenure Security and Plot‐level Investments: Evidence from Rural Tanzania

Sipangule¹

2017

African Development Review

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The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest for agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest for agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are affected when agribusinesses decrease or cease their operations. A large number of agribusinesses that acquired agricultural land in many sub‐Saharan African countries have reduced or ceased their operations in recent years. This paper introduces a new dimension to the literature by investigating how a decrease in the share of land held by an agribusiness in a village affects smallholder plot‐level tenure security and investments in rural Tanzanian villages. Drawing on a panel of 5,101 plots, we find that a decrease in the share of land held by an agribusiness significantly increases the probability that a plot has tenure security. Moreover, our results reveal that a decrease in the share of land held by agribusinesses significantly raises the time spent on the plot. This result is primarily driven by the number of household members employed in the agricultural sector but not through changes in tenure security.

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Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

The effects of land titling in Tanzania

The effects of land titling in Tanzania

Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?

Agribusinesses, Smallholder Tenure Security and Plot‐level Investments: Evidence from Rural Tanzania

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