Land tenure reform in Asia and Africa [electronic resource] : assessing impacts on poverty and natural resource management /
Holden, S.editor.
Otsuka, K.editor.
Deininger, K.editor.
Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of tables -- List of figures, maps and boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Land tenure reforms, poverty and natural resource management : conceptual framework / Stein Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, and Klaus Deininger -- Land redistribution reforms -- Land reforms, caste discrimination, and land market performance in Nepal / Jeetendra P. Aryal and Stein Holden -- Does sharecropping affect productivity and long-term investment? : evidence from West Bengal's tenancy reforms / Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, and Vandana Yadav -- Would small be beautiful in the South African land reform? / Henrik Wiig and Henning Øien -- The economic effects of land redistribution : the case of community-based rural land development project in Malawi / Franklin Simtowe, Mariapia Mendola, Julius Mangisoni, Hardwick Tchale, and Clement Nyirongo -- Tenure security and transfer rights enhancing reforms -- Welfare impacts of land certification in Tigray, Ethiopia / Stein Holden and Hosaena Ghebru -- Access to land : market and non-market land transactions in rural Vietnam / Luu Duc Khai, Thomas Markussen, Simon McCoy, and Finn Tarp -- Land tenure reforms, land market participation and the farm size productivity -- Relationship in Uganda / Alex Tatwangire and Stein Holden -- Forest tenure reforms -- Forest use rights and community management in inner Tarai region of Nepal / Nayayan Poudel, Nobuhiko Fuwa, and Keijiro Otsuka -- Tenure and forest management in India : impacts on equity and efficiency of van Panchayats in Uttarakhand / Ashokankur Datta and Gunnar Kohlin -- Tenure security and investment effects of forest tenure reform in China / Stein Holden, Yuanyuan Yi, Xuemei Jiang and Jintao Xu -- Community forest management and tree planting on farms in Kakamega, Kenya / Maurice Juma Ogada, Wilfred Nyangena, and Geophrey Sikei -- Impact of land certification on tree growing on private plots of rural households : evidence from Ethiopia / Alemu Mekonnen, Hosaena Ghebru, Stein Holden, and Menale Kassie -- New challenges and the future of land tenure reform -- The rise of large farms in land abundant countries : do they have a future? / Derek Byerlee, and Klaus Deininger -- Using the land governance assessment framework to help secure rural land rights : framework and experience thus far / Klaus Deininger -- Conclusions / Stein Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, and Klaus Deininger -- Appendices.
Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts.
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