In this study, we argue that while community forest management is effective in protecting forest resources as argued by Ostrom, it may fail to provide proper incentives to take care of such resources because of collective sharing of benefits of forest management. This study proposes a mixed...

This paper assesses the implications of caste discrimination and past land reforms on the land rental market performance, land productivity and land use intensity in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the so-called "untouchables". Dalits faced...

This article estimates the poverty reducing impact of the recent land reforms and land transfers in the different land tenure systems of Uganda. Using balanced panel data for 309 households in 2001, 2003, and 2005, models that control for unobserved household heterogeneity and endogeneity of...

The paper examines the impact of land certification on tree growing on private plots of rural households in the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia. Household and plot level panel data from before and after land certification from stratified random samples of households were used for the...

This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land among smallholder households in four different areas in the Oromia and SNNP Regions in the southern highlands of Ethiopia. Household panel data from 2007...

Denne artikkelen beskriver eiendomsstrukturen og bruksstrukturen for landbrukseiendommer i Rissa kommune og hvordan disse har endret seg de siste tiår fram til 2013. Den bruker data fra Statens Kartverk og Statens Landbruksforvaltning til dette. Nøkkelinformanter i kommunen er benyttet til å...

Omfanget av jordleie og bruksstruktur for tre norske kommuner (Norddal, Rissa og Ås) fra tre ulike landsdeler sammenlignes for årene 2004 og 2013 basert på data fra Statens Landbruksforvaltning (produksjonstilskudd) og Statens Kartverk (eid areal). Ås antas å være typisk for kornproduksjon...

We assess the spatial and intertemporal change patterns of farmland prices using per hectare minimum willingness to accept (WTA) sales and rental prices in Malawi. We use three rounds of nationally representative household farm panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS),...