This paper is about social relations in customary lands for the matrilineal uxorilocal culture of the Lomwe, Nyanja and Yao tribes in Southern Malawi. The study was carried out in the districts of Chiradzulu and Phalombe. Qualitative methods were used to examine local histories and practices to...

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

The objective of this investigation is to verify how the agricultural productive structures were characterized, in their regional multiscale forms between 1995 and 2021, in what refers to their location and specialization aspects. To this end, it is observed that markets, by leading the style of...

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

Traffic congestion is a persistent problem in large metropolises and increasingly common in medium and large cities. Several studies have analyzed the negative effects of congestion in terms of economic productivity loss, increased environmental pollution, and negative health consequences....

Dieses Gutachten im Auftrag des Freistaats Bayern basiert auf einem Fragenkatalog des Bayerischen Landtags zu Entwicklungen und Handlungsoptionen auf dem landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmarkt in Bayern. Die Fragen werden aus agrarökonomischer und rechtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive beantwortet. Eine...

The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...

This paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform's objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the different actors involved. It delves into the main...

This Article provides an introduction to land-related legal issues facing tribal governments and Indigenous peoples in the United States and is intended to encourage deeper and more widespread engagement on these important topics. Forced property law reforms have been used throughout history as...

We empirically analyze the effect of land reform on rural conflicts in 1930s Spain. This reform is a classical example of property rights reform in a developing economy. Despite its prominence, the effects on rural conflict have been elusive due to lack of hard data. We fill this gap by...

This study investigates the effects of land tenure and property rights (LTPRs) on smallholder farmers’ adoption of climate-smart practices (CSPs) among cereal farming households in Nigeria. The data were collected from maize and rice farmers in a Nation-wide Farm Household Survey conducted...

Since the global food price crisis between 2007 and 2008, governments in developing countries such as Vietnam have paid more attention to food security issues. The government of Vietnam has issued policies to sustain rice land and imposed restrictions upon the transformation of rice land to...

This scientific study focuses on the assessment of the legislation on land valuation, which takes place in the framework of selected administrative procedures in the Slovak Republic. The issue of land valuation is regulated in several pieces of legislation and, in terms of content, is their...

Livestock farming and the environmentally friendly management of Alpine pastures represent a traditional form of mountain farming. Grazing and the maintenance of pastures and the Alps are publicly subsidised in recognition of the ecological importance of the activities and because the costs are...

Ökologischer und konventioneller Landbau wirken sich unterschiedlich auf die Biodiversität aus. Zwei gegenläufige Effekte sind dabei zu berücksichtigen: Die höhere Biodiversität auf den Flächen des ökologischen Landbaus und der geringere Flächenverbrauch des konventionellen Landbaus....

Dieses Gutachten im Auftrag des Freistaats Bayern basiert auf einem Fragenkatalog des Bayerischen Landtags zu Entwicklungen und Handlungsoptionen auf dem landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmarkt in Bayern. Die Fragen werden aus agrarökonomischer und rechtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive beantwortet. Eine...

In Deutschland existiert keine statistische Erhebung über die Verteilung des Grundeigentums. Für Flächen der Nutzungsart Landwirtschaft wird in diesem Bericht eine Analyse der Eigentumsstrukturen in einer bundesweiten Stichprobe von 59 Gemeinden vorgelegt. Basis sind die Eigentümerdaten aus...

The aim of this paper is to explain the impact of the establishment of the system of landownership on the income distribution and economic growth of settler economies (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and Uruguay) during the First Globalization. We consider a conceptual framework based on the...

ContextLandlessness continues to be high, more so among scheduled tribe (ST) households, in tribal dominant states such as Odisha. This can primarily be attributed to the existence of historical weaknesses in land administration systems.Current legal frameworks to prevent tribal land alienation,...

The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

New Zealand and Uruguay enjoyed a virtuous incursion into the world economy during the first globalisation era (1870–1914) as settler economies producing food and raw materials. This allowed both countries to attain high economic growth rates and high levels of income per capita, and to...

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

Owing to climate change, population growth and tenurial changes, the past decade has witnessed high interest among migrant and settler pastoralist groups in the vegetal-rich customary lands of the Agogo Traditional Area. This has resulted in lease grants of large land areas to pastoralists by...

Periurban farming systems are characterized by the need to adapt the farming practices coping with a modified natural and social environment. Questions are thus posed on the efficient use of the inputs. The purpose of this study is to estimate the technical efficiency and the productivity of...

In Deutschland existiert keine statistische Erhebung über die Verteilung des Grundeigentums. Für Flächen der Nutzungsart Landwirtschaft wird in diesem Bericht eine Analyse der Eigentumsstrukturen in einer bundesweiten Stichprobe von 59 Gemeinden vorgelegt. Basis sind die Eigentümerdaten aus...

Agrarian structures are synthetic expression of evolution / devolution of agriculture. Dynamic analysis on 25 years of Romanian agriculture highlights the characteristics and future prospects in the context of the National Rural Development Plan - RDP from 2014 to 2020 and the EU's Common...

I present a theory to account for the emergence of land rights in a subsistence agricultural economy. An important feature is that, to maximize tax revenue, an authoritarian state must devise land rights to overcome the informational constraint in registering the population for tax collection....

Der vorliegende Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse des Projekts 'Auswirkungen überregional aktiver Investoren in der Landwirtschaft auf ländliche Räume' zusammen. Darin wurde eine Fallstudien- Methodik zur Untersuchung der Auswirkungen solcher Investoren auf die übernommenen landwirtschaftlichen...

Der vorliegende Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse des Projekts „Auswirkungen überregional aktiver Investoren in der Landwirtschaft auf ländliche Räume“ zusammen. Darin wurde eine Fallstudien- Methodik zur Untersuchung der Auswirkungen solcher Investoren auf die übernommenen...

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...