Land tenure differences and investment in land improvement measures: Theoretical and empirical analyses

Abdulai, Awudu; Owusu, Victor; Goetz, Renan-Ulrich

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2010.08.002

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“…Despite the fact that the non-owner forms of land management achieved high professional standards and productive efficiency of land, farmers still assign greater value to traditional forms of production management by landowner-cultivators. This result is consistent with previous empirical research, which supports conventional expectations that owner-operators are attentive to the long-term value of their land and thus are more likely to adopt conservation practices than renters 9 (Abdulai et al, 2011;Kabubo-Mariara, 2007;Myyrä et al, 2007;Soule et al, 2000). This careful land management is obviously valued in farmers' opinions about land values.…”

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“…Attention has recently been paid in the literature to the value of the biophysical attributes of land, suggesting that land values may vary with potential environmental contamination (Boisvert et al, 1997), soil exhaustion and degradation (Sills and Caviglia-Harris, 2009), and the cropping history of the plot (de la Fuente et al, 2006). Another strand of literature emphasizes the implications of land tenure on fertilization, adoption of conservation practices, and longterm land improvements (Abdulai et al, 2011;Myyrä et al, 2007;Soule et al, 2000). However, the extent to which different tenure modes are reflected in land values has not yet been examined.…”

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Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina

Choumert

Phélinas

2015

Ecological Economics

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Avertissement :Les commentaires et analyses développés n'engagent que leurs auteurs qui restent seuls responsables des erreurs et insuffisances. AbstractIn the context of the rapid development of the cultivation of genetically modified soybeans in Argentina, we conduct a hedonic analysis of agricultural land values. The main objective is to evaluate the impact of land tenure systems and agricultural practices on these values. Data on 338 parcels, located in the Pampas region, are analyzed. The tenure appears to be a particularly important variable. We find that plots rented either by physical persons or by companies are negatively valued in relation to plots owned. Results also highlight the importance, though not to a large degree, of a diversified cropping pattern compared to soybean monoculture. Soil quality, location of the plots, distance to markets, as well as to the nearest city, were also found to affect land values.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina

Choumert

Phélinas

2015

Ecological Economics

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“…Inclusion of human capital investment as an alternative mode yields a positive relationship between tenure security and soil conservation effort, which is consistent with a set of literature on land conservation investment in developing countries (e.g., Abdulai, Owusu, and Goetz 2011;Besley 1995;Deninger and Jin 2003;Feneske 2011). In fact, it allows the current generation to degrade the topsoil.…”

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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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“…In Africa, land ownership and tenure is complex, depending on the customary and colonial masters' statutory rights [32]. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), formerly known as the Belgian Congo, its 1973 land tenure law suppressed private ownership of rights, allowing customary rights over non allocated lands in the rural areas, however, of recent, community and individual rights are recognized [33] [34].…”

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Modelling the Violation of Restrictions Pertaining to Deforestation in a Given Land Right

Tumba¹,

Ariff²

2015

JEP

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This paper develops a model that could be used to visualize and predict the violation of restrictions in a given forest. The violation of restriction in this case is assumed to be the difference in areal extent between two forest cover scenes with time; termed "deforestation". It analyses the relationship in forest cover changes overtime in Ganye Forest Reserve and Glide Cross Country Farm in Adamawa state, Nigeria. Cadastral maps of the forest reserve and farmland were used as the base maps, while the satellite images served as the spatio-temporal data. Landsat ETM+ images of 2003, 2008 and 2013 were used to identify, determine and estimate the violation of restrictions. The result shows that the violation of restrictions could be reliably determined for both the forest reserve and farmland and forecast made in order to predict future occurrence. It also revealed a continuous deforestation in the forest reserve, while in the farmland regeneration of forest stock was noticed. This information is very vital for forest management, planning and decision making in a viable land administration domain.

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Land tenure differences and investment in land improvement measures: Theoretical and empirical analyses

Cited by 245 publications

References 27 publications

Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina

Determinants of agricultural land values in Argentina

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

Modelling the Violation of Restrictions Pertaining to Deforestation in a Given Land Right

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