Smallholders' Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Landscape?

Deininger, Klaus; Xia, Fang; Savastano, Sara

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-7285

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“…In short, there appears to be great dynamism in farmland ownership and farm size distribution patterns. One might consider that farmland use patterns are more important than farmland ownership patterns, but data indicate that the two do not vary much from one another because of the still relatively small share of total agricultural land under rental market arrangements (Deininger et al, 2015).…”

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“…Evidence to date indicates that rental markets are transferring land from relatively large to small farms (Deininger et al, 2015), although the quantity of land redistributed through rental markets is normally a tiny fraction of total land owned. Computed Gini coefficients of operated farm size tend to be negligibly smaller than Gini coefficients of land ownership from the same data sets (Deininger et al, 2015;Jin and Jayne, 2013). However, this may change with time as market access conditions improve.…”

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Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium‐scale farms

Jayne

Chamberlin

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Agricultural Economics

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This study assesses changes over the past decade in the farm size distributions of Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Among all farms below 100 hectares in size, the share of land on small-scale holdings under five hectares has declined except in Kenya. Medium-scale farms (defined here as farm holdings between five and 100 hectares) account for a rising share of total farmland, especially in the 10 to 100 hectare range where the number of these farms is growing especially rapidly. Medium-scale farms control roughly 20% of total farmland in Kenya, 32% in Ghana, 39% in Tanzania, and over 50% in Zambia. The rapid rise of medium-scale holdings in most cases reflects increased interest in land by urban-based professionals or influential rural people. About half of these farmers obtained their land later in life, financed by non-farm income. The rise of medium-scale farms is affecting the region in diverse ways that are difficult to generalize. Many such farms are a source of dynamism, technical change and commercialization of African agriculture. However, medium-scale land acquisitions may exacerbate land scarcity in rural areas, which could have important effects given the projected 60% increase in rural Africa's population between 2015 and 2050. Medium-scale farmers tend to dominate farm lobby groups and influence agricultural policies and public expenditures to agriculture in their favor. Nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from six countries (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia) show that urban households own 5% to 35% of total agricultural land and that this share is rising in all countries where DHS surveys were repeated. This suggests a new and hitherto unrecognized channel by which medium-scale farmers may be altering the strength and location of agricultural growth and employment multipliers between rural and urban areas. Given current trends, medium-scale farms are likely to soon become the dominant scale of farming in many African countries.

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Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium‐scale farms

Jayne

Chamberlin

Traub

et al. 2016

Agricultural Economics

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“…Land and labor market earnings: Facilitating women's access to land, livestock, and labor markets may also help them derive additional sources of income and increase market efficiency. Deininger et al (2015) analyze detailed household data, collected by the World Bank's LSMS-ISA initiative, from six African countries to identify correlations in land market participation. They find that women may benefit more -in terms of earnings -from the renting out of land to the average producer rather than relying on their own production.…”

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“…They find that women may benefit more -in terms of earnings -from the renting out of land to the average producer rather than relying on their own production. The authors hypothesize that women's lower relative tenure security is a chief impediment to their land market participation, given the heightened risk of expropriation that leasing out could entail (Deininger, Xia, and Savastano 2015). Experimental evidence from a savings intervention in Sri Lanka has also uncovered a relationship between savings deposits and increased wage income (Callen et al 2015).…”

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Gender and Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions

O’Sullivan¹

2017

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…1 See Sheahan and Barrett (2014), Palacios-Lopez et al (2015), and Deininger et al (2015) for detailed analyses of these related markets using data from the same survey project that we use.…”

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Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure

Dillon¹,

Barrett²

2014

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a b s t r a c tThis paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of factor market participation by agrarian households and to formally test for failures in rural markets. Under complete and competitive markets, households can solve their consumption and production problems separately, so that household factor endowments do not predict input demand. This paper implements a simple, theoretically grounded test of this separation hypothesis, which can be interpreted as a reduced form test of market failure. In all five study countries, the analysis finds strong evidence of factor market failure. Moreover, those failures appear general and structural, not specific to subpopulations defined by gender, geography, human capital, or land quality. However, we show that rural markets are not generally missing in an absolute sense, suggesting that market existence is less of a problem than market function.

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Smallholders' Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Landscape?

Cited by 13 publications

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Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium‐scale farms

Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium‐scale farms

Gender and Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Constraints and Effective Interventions

Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure

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