A major argument put forward in favour of individualised land rights in sub-Saharan Africa is that farmlands held under exclusive and secure rights are more productive than farmlands held under other public or customary forms of tenure. If true, this argument implies that reforms to individualise...
Gavian, S.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
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[Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia]
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Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia
This research is being undertaken as an ILCA project with support from the Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme. There are three objectives. One objective is very similar to that of the World Bank and Niger studies: to determine the effects of land tenure on investment, productivity and...
This paper examines the relative efficiency of alternative land tenure arrangements using a single region (Arsi) in Ethiopia as a case study. The first part of the paper discusses land tenure issues in sub-Saharan Africa. The second part outlines the conceptual framework. Interspatial and interte...
Gavian, S.
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Ehui, Simeon K.
,
[The relative efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in Arsi zone, Ethiopia]
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The relative efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in Arsi zone, Ethiopia
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that land held under varying configurations of property rights will be farmed at different levels of production efficiency. Production data were collected from 477 plots in a fairly productive, mixed farming system in the Ethiopian highlands. Interspatial mea...
Gavian, S.
,
Ehui, Simeon K.
,
[Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia]
,
Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia