Basic principles of the Translation Costs Economics have been incorporated to the agrarian economy. Agrarian transactions have been put on the centre of economic analysis. Critical dimensions of agricultural transaction have been determined. Structure of costs for alternative governance modes of...

The purpose of this study is to examine the existing land tenure systems in Gombe state, Nigeria with a view to determining its impact on agricultural productivity in the study area. Land tenure system is concerned with man's relationship with land, involving intervention in the prevailing...

This Article challenges existing narratives about the future of American Indian land tenure. The current highly-federalized system for reservation property is deeply problematic. In particular, the trust status of many reservation lands is expensive, bureaucratic, controlling, and linked to...

The study examined the causal linkages between land tenure security and food security in Osun, Nigeria. The targeted population for the study comprised 16,762 agrarian households in Ede, Ile-Ife, Ilesha, Ikire, Ikirun and Egbedore towns. Sample size for the study comprised 3, 600 households....

Structural change in agriculture is characterized by the interdependency of farms' growth decisions due to the limited availability of the production factor land. This paper adds to the sparse empirical literature on the relation between land market concentration and farm size changes,...

The classification of agricultural producers by legal-organizational form (agricultural enterprises, peasant (family farms), household plots and gardening associations), traditionally used by the Russian official statistics, is outdated and masks the dynamic changes that have taken place. Due to...

Policymakers and donors have long viewed credit programs as salient means to develop the agriculture sector, especially the small-farm agriculture. Credit programs in the country have evolved from subsidized directed credit programs to a more market-based approach. There have been little to no...

Las estructuras agrarias latinoamericanas y caribeñas se caracterizan por la coexistencia de pequeñas explotaciones familiares con medianas y grandes explotaciones, generando una estructura muy heterogénea y desigual, que se reproduce en forma constante en el tiempo. En este estudio se...