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Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa

Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management

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Editors:
  1. Stein T. Holden

    1. School of Economics and Business and Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

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  2. Keijiro Otsuka

    1. National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Klaus Deininger

    1. Development Economics Research Group, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Land Tenure Reforms, Poverty and Natural Resource Management: Conceptual Framework

    1. Land Tenure Reforms, Poverty and Natural Resource Management: Conceptual Framework

      • Stein T. Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, Klaus Deininger
      Pages 1-26

  3. Land Redistribution Reforms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Land Reforms, Caste Discrimination and Land Market Performance in Nepal

      • Jeetendra P. Aryal roresearcher, Stein T. Holden
      Pages 29-53

    3. Does Sharecropping Affect Long-term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms

      • Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Vandana Yadav
      Pages 54-79

    4. Would Small be More Beautiful in the South African Land Reform?

      • Henrik Wiig, Henning Øien
      Pages 80-104

    5. The Economic Effects of Land Redistribution: The Case of a Community-Based Rural Land Development Project in Malawi

      • Franklin Simtowe, Mariapia Mendola, Julius Mangisoni, Hardwick Tchale, Clement Nyirongo
      Pages 105-133

  4. Tenure Security and Transfer Rights Enhancing Reforms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Welfare Impacts of Land Certification in Tigray, Ethiopia

      • Stein T. Holden, Hosaena Ghebru
      Pages 137-161

    3. Access to Land: Market and Non-Market Land Transactions in Rural Vietnam

      • Luu Due Khai, Thomas Markussen, Simon McCoy, Finn Tarp
      Pages 162-186

    4. Land Tenure Reforms, Land Market Participation and the Farm Size — Productivity Relationship in Uganda

      • Alex Tatwangire, Stein T. Holden
      Pages 187-210

  5. Forest Tenure Reforms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. From Deforestation to Reforestation: The Evolution of Community Forest Management in the Dang District of Nepal

      • Narayan Raj Poudel, Nobuhiko Fuwa, Keijiro Otsuka
      Pages 213-232

    3. Tenure and Forest Management in India: Impacts on Equity and Efficiency of Van Panchayats in Uttarakhand

      • Ashokankur Datta, Gunnar Köhlin
      Pages 233-255

    4. Tenure Security and Investment Effects of Forest Tenure Reform in China

      • Stein T. Holden, Yuanyuan Yi, Xuemei Jiang, Jintao Xu
      Pages 256-282

    5. Community Forest Management and Tree Planting on Farms in Kakamega, Kenya

      • Maurice Juma Ogada, Wilfred Nyangena, Geophrey Sikei
      Pages 283-307

    6. The Impact of Land Certification on Tree Growing on Private Plots of Rural Households: Evidence from Ethiopia

      • Alemu Mekonnen, Hosaena Ghebru, Stein T. Holden, Menale Kassie
      Pages 308-330

  6. New Challenges and the Future of Land Tenure Reform

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 331-331
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    2. The Rise of Large Farms in Land-Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future?

      • Derek Byerlee, Klaus Deininger
      Pages 333-353

    3. Using the Land Governance Assessment Framework to Help Secure Rural Land Rights: Framework and Experience Thus Far

      • Klaus Deininger, Thea Hilhorst
      Pages 354-379
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Economics and Business and Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

    Stein T. Holden

  • National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

    Keijiro Otsuka

  • Development Economics Research Group, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA

    Klaus Deininger

About the editors

Dr. Jeetendra P. Aryal, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Dehli, India Dr. Derek Byerlee, Independent Scholar Dr. Ashokankur Datta, Shiv Nadar University, India Dr. Nobuhiko Fuwa, Waseda University, Japan Dr. Hosaena Ghebru, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Dr. Xuemei Jiang, Beijing Forestry University, China Dr. Songqing Jin, Michigan State University, USA Dr. Menale Kassie, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya Luu Duc Khai, Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Hanoi, Vietnam Dr. Gunnar Kohlin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Dr. Julius Mangisoni, Lilongwe University, Malawi Dr. Thomas Markussen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Simon McCoy, International Development (DfID), Edinburgh, UK Dr. Alemu Mekonnen, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Dr. Mariapia Mendola, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Dr. Wilfred Nyangena, University of Nairobi, Kenya Clement Nyirongo, Malawi Maurice Juma Ogada, Environment for Development Initiative in Kenya (EfD-Kenya) Narayan Raj Poudel, Waseda University, Japan Geophrey Sikei, Environment for Development Initiative in Kenya (EfD-Kenya) Dr. Franklin Simtowe, Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Nairobi, Kenya Dr. Finn Tarp. World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Finland Dr. Alex Tatwangire, Uganda Dr. Hardwick Tchale. World Bank, Sierra Leone Dr. Henrik Wiig, Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Norway Dr. Jintao Xu, Peking University, China Dr. Vandana Yadav, Michigan State University, USA Ms. Yuanyuan Yi, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Mr. Henning Øien, University of Oslo, Norway

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