Although theory predicts that better property rights to land can increase land productivity through tenure security … quasiexperimental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the Ethiopian land certification program by identifying … intensity (technical efficiency). For this purpose, we adopted a data envelopment analysis–based Malmquist-type productivity …

Using detailed household-farm level data from Malawi, we measure real farm total factor productivity (TFP) controlling … are essentially unrelated to farm TFP implying a strong negative effect on agricultural productivity. A reallocation of … factors to their efficient use among existing farmers would increase agricultural productivity by a factor of 3.6-fold. We …