Fast Track Land Reform Programme, tenure security and investments in soil conservation: Micro‐evidence from Mazowe District in Zimbabwe

Zikhali, Precious

doi:10.1111/j.1477-8947.2010.01298.x

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“…Thus, fear of redistributive measures lowered the importance of land registration in enhancing security of tenure in irrigation systems in Amhara. This finding is similar to that of Moyo () and Zikhali () in rainfed and irrigation farming systems of Zimbabwe where land redistributive measures created some tenure insecurity among smallholders. Yet, in Tigray sites, land redistribution was not viewed as a threat by participants of the study, and indeed interest in land redistribution exists among war returnees and landless youths.…”

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After All, Land Belongs to the State: Examining the Benefits of Land Registration for Smallholders in Ethiopia

Yami

Snyder

2015

Land Degrad Dev

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The role of land registration in reducing rural poverty has been debated for several decades. This article analyses the impacts of land registration on land rentals, security of land tenure, disputes over land, use of credit facilities from formal financial institutions and gender access and control over land. Our findings are based on data collected between April and December 2011 in irrigation systems in three regional states of Ethiopia using in‐depth interviews and field surveys. Land registration has a positive influence on land rentals by reducing the fear of landholders in losing land to renters. Important benefits of land registration also include enhancing tenure security through ensuring usufruct rights over land and addressing the conflicts that arise from the competition to access irrigable land. Joint land titling secures women's access to land and encourages women's decision‐making on land rentals, input use, cropping patterns and the marketing of harvest from irrigable plots. While land registration allows for improved tenure security, gender equity and reduced disputes over land, it does little to facilitate access to credit or increase the use of farm inputs. The findings suggest that more work needs to be carried out to translate the benefits of land registration into improved livelihoods by increasing investment in farm inputs, production of high value, off‐season crops and increase market participation. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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After All, Land Belongs to the State: Examining the Benefits of Land Registration for Smallholders in Ethiopia

Yami

Snyder

2015

Land Degrad Dev

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“…Tenure security also induces a value‐increasing effect by stimulating forestland investment and enhancing the insurance function of forestland. Studies on farmland tenure have indicated that secure land rights may stimulate farmers to invest in land, thereby raising land values (Brasselle et al , ; Zikhali, ), and in the process create an expectation of a higher rental price (Ma et al , 2015). On the supply side, households have more incentives to rent out land management rights (i.e., use rights) to capture the increased rent resulting from increased tenure security.…”

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Property rights integrity, tenure security and forestland rental market participation: Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China

Zhou

Shi

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Natural Resources Forum

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The decentralization of property rights is the focus of the forest tenure reforms in several developing countries. In China, it was achieved by the launch of a new round of collective forest tenure reform beginning in 2003, which provided farmers with more integrated and secure forestland rights. Drawing on household data collected in Jiangxi province in 2011 and 2013, this paper examines the impacts of households’ recognition of property rights and improved tenure security on forestland rental activities. Our empirical results show that households with higher perceptions of more complete use rights and mortgage rights have a lower probability and intensity of renting‐in land, while households with lower expectations of future forestland redistribution or expropriation are more likely to rent in forestland and more of it. These results imply that the development of a forestland rental market leading to better forest management requires an integrated forestland management approach consisting of decentralization of property rights and village governance. In particular, the central government may further clarify the rights and obligations affiliated to forestland ownership, contractual rights, and management rights; while the village collective may shift from direct intervention in the integrity and security of forestland rights to the supervision and protection of decentralized forestland rights to increase efficiency from the decentralization of property rights.

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“…Of the three channels, it is the first that has received the most attention from development scholars. They have analysed how several factors such as political connectivity (Goldstein and Udry, ; Markussen and Tarp, ), inheritance customs (Dillon and Voena, ), migration‐induced population pressures (Grimm and Klasen, ) and land reform programmes (Banerjee et al ., , Holden and Yohannes, ; Deininger and Ali, ; Leight, ; Zikhali, ) influence tenure security and investments.…”

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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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Fast Track Land Reform Programme, tenure security and investments in soil conservation: Micro‐evidence from Mazowe District in Zimbabwe

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

After All, Land Belongs to the State: Examining the Benefits of Land Registration for Smallholders in Ethiopia

After All, Land Belongs to the State: Examining the Benefits of Land Registration for Smallholders in Ethiopia

Property rights integrity, tenure security and forestland rental market participation: Evidence from Jiangxi Province, China

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

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