Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Acampora, Michelle; Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack

doi:10.3386/w30495

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“…Other studies describe land leasing practices as important to young small-scale farmers (Min et al, 2017;Abay et al, 2021), especially in China (Min et al, 2017), Kenya and Uganda (Kijima and Tabetando, 2020). Land leasing positively impacts land productivity (Jin and Jayne, 2013), especially in commercial production ventures (Kijima and Tabetando, 2020;Acampora et al, 2022). These results have significant implications, given that we also observed several restrictive leasehold contracts indicating that these young farming households leasing land may not be able to exploit leased plots fully, hence benefiting less from the practice.…”

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Adaptation to land scarcity among small-scale farming households in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bahati Shamamba,

Bashangwa Mpozi,

Egesa

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Rural farming households in Sub-Saharan Africa, facing limited land access, engage in land purchase, rental, and other land access practices. However, the highly unregulated land markets expose these farmers to wide-ranging vulnerabilities. In this study, we investigated the land access mechanisms and the related constraints among the small-scale farmers in the densely populated Eastern part of The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We randomly selected 240 consenting farmers for inclusion in the study and collected data using semi-structured interviews to obtain data on land access characteristics. Then, the data was subjected to descriptive statistics to obtain measures of central tendency and dispersion on the responses and correlation statistics to understand the patterns and relations of factors affecting the land access and strategies used to cope with the limited land situation in the South Kivu province of DRC. Our results showed an insecure land tenure system among smallholder farmers. Most of the farmers in the study purchased and leased land to cope with poor land access and, in so doing, faced high price-related limitations that were unsustainable to these farmers; they also faced highly restrictive leasehold contracts. Given the limited access to financial resources and support, improving regulations of land markets and resource support interventions could promote land access among these smallholder farmers. We conclude that the challenges of land access and the current methods farmers use to obtain additional land among the smallholder farming households in the south Kivu province of DRC are precarious and unsustainable and continue to pose a food insecurity and poverty risk among these farmers. We recommend developing and implementing measures to support resource access by these farmers, such as finance, farmer-focused cooperative societies, and better land policy reforms and tenure systems to improve access to land among these farmers and farmers facing similar scenarios in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

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confidence: 68%

Adaptation to land scarcity among small-scale farming households in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bahati Shamamba,

Bashangwa Mpozi,

Egesa

et al. 2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Third, recent work has studied the impact of land misallocation on aggregate agricultural productivity (see, e.g., Restuccia and Santaeulalia-Llopis, 2023; Gollin and Udry, 2021;Acampora et al, 2022).…”

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Value Chain Microfinance

Casaburi,

Willis

2024

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We study the provision of financial services to small firms, consumers, and workers in developing countries as part of value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to financial access -including asymmetric information, enforcement, and behavioral biases -and strengthen value chains, but also how it can introduce new challenges. We then review a recent empirical literature at the intersection of value chains and microfinance studying the demand for and effects of VCMF in credit, insurance, and savings markets. We conclude by highlighting promising directions for future work.

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“…We model land as not tradable in line with empirical evidence showing that land markets in sub-Saharan Africa and other low-income regions are generally thin, with sparse rental markets and in some cases "almost non-existent" transactions(Acampora et al , 2022) (see also e.g Deininger et al (2008)Holden et al (2010)).…”

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