Land Policies and Farm Performance in Thailand's Forest Reserve Areas

Feder, Gershon; Onchan, Tongroj; Chalamwong, Yongyuth

doi:10.1086/451671

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“…6 Our results add new empirical evidence on an important channel through which improved property rights affect economic outcomes. In reviewing the property rights literature, Besley (1995); Besley and Ghatak (2010);and Galiani and Schargrodsky (2011) show that the benefits from well-defined and secure property rights over land can materialize through four channels: enhanced investment incentives (Alchian and Demsetz 1973;Lin 1992;Leight 2015), facilitation of land trades (Besley 1995;Deininger 2003), increased use of land as collateral in accessing credit (Feder, Onchan, and Chalamwong 1988;De Soto 2000), and improved intra-household labor allocations (Field 2007). The literature makes no clear distinction as to whether rights are established by use or by certification/titling, as long as they are well defined and secure.…”

Section: In Many Developing Countries Property Rights Over Rural Landmentioning

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Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico

Janvry

Emerick

Gonzalez-Navarro

et al. 2015

American Economic Review

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Well-defined and secure property rights over land have long been recognized as essential for economic development (Demsetz 1967;North and Thomas 1973;De Soto 2000). There are, however, different ways in which these rights can be established. Contrary to the norm in developed countries where rights are established by land titles, in many developing countries they are established by contingent use of the land. In this case, security of access requires evidence of productive use by the occupant himself, with the implication that leaving the land idle or letting it to others creates a substantial risk of loss of rights. This can be inefficient for two reasons. First, it imposes conditions on the amount of labor used on the land by requiring that it be kept in production at an accepted standard of use, ignoring the return to labor in alternative activities. Second, the common prohibition to land transactions prevents land from being reallocated from less productive to more productive users. With a focus on increasing the efficiency of land use, land certification and titling programs that remove constraints on land use and allow land transactions have been widely sponsored by national governments and international development agencies (Heath 1990).

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Section: In Many Developing Countries Property Rights Over Rural Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico

Janvry

Emerick

Gonzalez-Navarro

et al. 2015

American Economic Review

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116

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“…Mai (1999) indicates the main reasons for agroforestry adoption in the Lak district of Dak Lak province in Viet Nam are the prospect of high income earning and the presence of technical assistance. He also found that a lack of knowledge of agroforestry and the lack of capital are the two main reasons for not adopting agroforestry (Feder et al, 1988;Thapa, 1998) In rural India the high income earning and economic competitiveness of tree crops are the main reason for agroforestry adoption (GOI, 2001). Farmers need to invest substantial amounts of money and labour to move from traditional cultivation to agroforestry, and they have no access to credit, and other institutional services required.…”

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Land Use Patterns and the Scale of Adoption of Agroforestry in the Rural Landscapes of Padma Floodplain in Bangladesh

Rahman¹,

Imam

Wachira³

et al. 2008

Forests, Trees and Livelihoods

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More details/abstract: Taking a historical perspective this paper explores the phasing out of 'bonded' labour in agriculture and its reappearance in the village-based powerloom industry in the Tiruppur region of Tamil Nadu, India. Focussing on a village outside Tiruppur, we trace the gradual transformation, and ultimate disappearance of forms of labour bondage in agriculture. In this region bondedness in agriculture changed in a number of significant ways, before giving way by about the 1970s to primarily casual and contract-based labour arrangements. Around the same time, small-scale powerloom workshops, which are highly labour intensive and increasingly dependent on migrant labour, began to mushroom in the village, leading to the reintroduction of bonded labour, but this time in the context of rural industrial employment. We explore how debt bondage was introduced and how it affects the working lives of both migrants and nonmigrants. The paper examines the differences and similarities between past agricultural and current industrial labour bondage, and how it is experienced and talked about by both employers and workers. This is a download from OpenDocs at the Institute of Development StudiesForests, Trees and Livelihoods, 2008, Vol. 18, pp. 193-207 1472- ABSTRACTThis research was conducted in six typical villages of Northern Bangladesh. A sample of 170 farmers was selected. Research indicates that the farmers practising agroforestry own small farms and the income of agroforestry helps them to reduce their poverty, maintain their socio-economic needs and sustain their livelihoods. Agroforestry is not a new concept in the study area. The people have been practicing agroforestry traditionally in the form of home gardens, hedgerows and alley cropping. Homestead agroforestry is an age old practice. Alley cropping and hedgerow agroforestry systems are comparatively new. Yet alley cropping is now most popular and is widely accepted in the study area because of its socio-economic advantages and environmental sustainability.

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“…Regarding policy on soil and water conservation, Onchan (1990) (Feder, Onchan and Chalamwong 1988) proposed that full ownership including squatters in reserve forest will improve social welfare, and that usufruct rights will neither provide effective motivation for farm productivity nor reduce forest encroachment.…”

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Property Entitlements and Land Reform in Upland Thai Catchments

Attwater

1997

SSRN Journal

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This paper draws upon recent conceptual advances concerning property entitlements, particularly as these relate to common-pool resources, and the complex bundle of opportunities for collective and collaborative management in upland catchments. A processual view of collective and collaborative action is the way in which interests are expressed as claims and ultimately translated into entitlements which specify rights to streams of benefits, and associated duties, in relation to a particular resource complex.Social and bureaucratic institutions will influence the way in which stakeholders can participate and interact in this process.Soft systems methodology was used as a guide for a process aimed at identifying mutually beneficial improvements in management between village, agency and commercial stakeholders. The collective and collaborative actions which have developed are all cases whereby particular bundles of property entitlements and related duties have been defined through a process of the expression of claims and identification of mutually beneficial arrangements. These have included local collective management of a water supply, partnerships relating to elements of conservation and production within the local agroecosystem, and socially legitimate patronage to support formal protocols of the land reform process.

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Land Policies and Farm Performance in Thailand's Forest Reserve Areas

Cited by 83 publications

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Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico

Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico

Land Use Patterns and the Scale of Adoption of Agroforestry in the Rural Landscapes of Padma Floodplain in Bangladesh

Property Entitlements and Land Reform in Upland Thai Catchments

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