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Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa : Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management / edited by S. Holden, K. Otsuka, K. Deininger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental economics.
- International economic relations.
- Regional economics.
- Space in economics.
- Management.
- Macroeconomics.
- Environmental Policy.
- Environmental Economics.
- International Economics.
- Regional and Spatial Economics.
- Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Environmental Policy.
- Environmental Economics.
- International Economics.
- Regional and Spatial Economics.
- Management.
- Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XIX, 405 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349465866
- 1349465860
- 9781137343819
- 1137343818
- OCLC:
- 859338711
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