[eng] The land lease market in an african ontext. a case study from Côte d'Ivoire - Based on an in-depth and long-run empirical investigation, this paper analyzes the land lease market in a village located in Lower Côte d'Ivoire. The first part of the paper deals with the conditions of...

[eng] Whereas the economics of agrarian contracts is rooted in the contractual paradigm, this paper offer a conceptualization of agrarian contracts as «composite» institutional arrangements, with contractual, conventional and regulatory dimensions. The theoretical and methodological...

[eng] Sharecropping as a partnership. the a medias contract in the sierra madre oriental - Mexico - Sharecropping is usually explained by a trade-off between tenant's risk aversion and incentives (standard Principal-Agent approach) or between agency costs under various market imperfections, and...

This paper contributes to the debate on rural land sales in Africa. First, it shows that the emergence of sales in the forested area of Côte d’Ivoire corresponds to an "imperfect" land commoditization, due to the social embedding of land transfers in the autochthon-migrant relationship. Then,...