Land reforms and population growth

Abstract

One of the greatest puzzles in demographic history is why in the rich and urbanized England, fertility declined much later than in the poor and rural France. We consider the effects of a land reform on demographic growth by a familyoptimization model where relative per capita wealth generates social status and welfare. We show that tenant farming is the major obstacle to escaping the Malthusian trap with high fertility and low productivity. A land reform provides peasants with higher returns for their investments, inducing them to increase their productivity and status rather than their family size. Consequently, the population growth rate slows down, but the productivity of land increases.

What are the Moderating Effect of Active Agricultural Population, Ethnicity Rate and Urbanization on Agricultural Reforms and Agricultural Growth? From Theory to Empirical Evidence in Benin

“…They therefore highlight the tensions between obtaining new freedoms, especially through access to land, and vulnerability to new subsistence vulnerabilities. Similarly, the work of Ulla et al [13], Mizero et al [14] has shown that the internationalization of land reforms limited by the rate of population growth is high. They explain that the active agricultural population participates in the agrarian reform, in the mode of access to land with a view to boosting agricultural growth.…”

Measuring parametric and semiparametric downside risks of selected agricultural commodities

“…All of these price oscillations, at the micro-level, make planning difficult for all market participants, such as consumers, farmers and import-export and commodity traders, while at the macro-level, unstable agricultural prices affect both developed and developing countries. Xouridas (2015) and Lehmijoki and Palokangas (2016) contended that developed countries are concerned about fiscal and economic exposures to commodity price shocks, whereas developing countries are even more vulnerable to agricultural price volatility because they receive significant income from their commodity export revenues.…”