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Title Land tenure reform in Asia and Africa : assessing impacts on poverty and natural resource management / edited by Stein Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway, Keijiro Otsuka, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan, and Klaus Deininger, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Contents 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
Summary By applying a unified framework, this book 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. These land tenure reforms include Land-to-the-tiller policies, Market assisted land redistribution reforms, Tenure security enhancing low-cost reforms, Forest tenure reforms and the Needed future reforms related to the recent sharp increase in demand for agricultural land in Africa. The Land-to-the-tiller reforms did not produce the intended impacts but rather enhanced tenure insecurity, undermined the efficiency of land rental markets and access to land for land-poor households. Market-assisted land redistribution reforms face many design and political challenges and have in many cases not been scaled up in a good way. Low-cost tenure security enhancing reforms have recently been scaled up in a number of countries with positive initial impacts. Individual ownership of forestland is preferred in some contexts while communal tenure manages forest resources effectively in other contexts
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Subject Land tenure -- Asia
Land tenure -- Africa
Land reform -- Asia
Land reform -- Africa
Development economics & emerging economies -- Asia -- Africa.
Environmental management -- Asia -- Africa.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Land reform
Land tenure
Development economics & emerging economies -- Asia -- Africa.
Environmental management -- Asia -- Africa.
Economics.
Africa
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Holden, Stein, editor
ISBN 9781137343819
1137343818