An Analysis of Land Leasing in Bangladesh Agriculture

Taslim, M. A.; Ahmed, Faryal

doi:10.1086/451963

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“…We follow existing literature to specify generic determinants, , of agricultural land rental decisions, which commonly include household-and farm-level characteristics (e.g., Taslim and Ahmed 1992;Deininger, Zegara, and Lavadenz 2003;Teklu and Lemi 2004; (defined as 1 if the household has access to agricultural extension services and 0 if not) and subsidy (defined as 1 if the household has received agricultural subsidy and 0 if not). 8,9 Finally, includes our variables of interest defining disaster exposure of a household.…”

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“…10 8 Bandyopadhyay and Skoufias (2015) identified ex ante occupational diversification, together with policy interventions such as access to market, credit and safety net, as an autonomous and proactive adaptation strategy in Bangladesh. 9 In case of Bangladesh, Taslim and Ahmed (1992) found that farm size, number of workers or income earning members in the family and access to agricultural assets such as ownership of bullocks are important determinants of land rental market transactions in Bangladesh.…”

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Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh

Eskander

Barbier

2022

Land Economics

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We examine the effects of natural disaster exposure on agricultural households who simultaneously make rent-in and rent-out decisions in the land rental market. Our econometric approach accounts for the effects of disaster exposure both on the adjustments in the quantity of operated land (i.e. extensive margin) and agricultural yield conditional on the land quantity adjustments (i.e. intensive margin), based on selectivity-corrected samples of rental market participants. Employing a household survey dataset from Bangladesh, we find that farmers were able to ameliorate their losses from exposure to disasters by optimizing their operational farm size through participation in the land rental market. These results are robust to alternative specifications. This suggests that the land rental market may be an effective instrument reducing disaster risk, and post-disaster policies should take into account this role more systematically.

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Section: Empirical Specificationsmentioning

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Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh

Eskander

Barbier

2022

Land Economics

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“…14 However, because tenure security is defined in terms of owned-operated and rented-operated land, it is likely to be endogenous in terms of household characteristics (e.g., gender, age and schooling of the household head and composition of the household), access to agricultural assets (e.g., plough ownership) and dependency on agriculture (e.g., landholding and primary occupation) (Taslim and Ahmed 1992;Rahman 2010;Eskander and Barbier 2016). In other words, the size of owned land may be exogenously determined, but overall operated land will include rented land, the volume of which is likely to be endogenously determined within the system of equations determining the operated land and farming decisions of the household.…”

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Tenure Security, Human Capital and Soil Conservation in an Overlapping Generation Rural Economy

Eskander

Barbier

2017

Ecological Economics

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We develop an overlapping generation model of rural agricultural households to examine whether tenure security and subsistence needs influence the choice between unexploited topsoil and investment in children's human capital as the mode of transfer of wealth. A unique dataset from Bangladesh finds that tenure security is associated with greater topsoil conservation and lower human capital investment. Therefore, there exists a tradeoff between these two modes of transfer. We suggest that increased public expenditure on schooling, which substitutes private expenditure, may lower the pressure on land and soil resources.

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“…For the latter, a farm family would still need to assign a family member to supervise the work of hired laborers. There is an upper limit to the number of hired workers that a family worker can supervise (Taslim and Ahmed 1992). Once this limit is exceeded, proper supervision becomes difficult and could cause production to suffer.…”

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Determinants of Land Leasing Decisions in Shrimp Farming in West Bengal, India: Implications for Government Policy

Bhattacharya¹

2013

AJAD

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Using primary data collected from 208 shrimp farming households in West Bengal, this study found that demographic and economic factors influence land-leasing decisions in both traditional and scientific shrimp farming. The Tobit model results indicate that the householdâ€™s land holding size is positively related with extent of leased in land in traditional shrimp farming; the relationship was negative in the case of scientific shrimp farming. This signifies that the market does not facilitate land leasing for traditional shrimp culture among households with small landholdings but does so in the case of scientific shrimp farming. Moreover, the household headâ€™s age had a negative relationship with extent of land leased out in both traditional and scientific shrimp farming. This indicates that existing institutional arrangements in shrimp farming in West Bengal have not been successful in motivating young rural people to undertake shrimp farming themselves instead of leasing out land for shrimp culture. Aquaculture policies should address this matter.

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An Analysis of Land Leasing in Bangladesh Agriculture

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh

Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh

Tenure Security, Human Capital and Soil Conservation in an Overlapping Generation Rural Economy

Determinants of Land Leasing Decisions in Shrimp Farming in West Bengal, India: Implications for Government Policy

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