Land Tenure and Agricultural Productivity in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Economics Literature and Recent Policy Strategies and Reforms

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1326-1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Place
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Economics Literature ◽  
Policy Strategies ◽  
Recent Policy

scholarly journals Relations between Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity: Exploring the Effect of Land Registration

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwacu Alban Singirankabo ◽  
Maurits Willem Ertsen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Land Registration ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Information Updating ◽  
Management Institutions

This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity. Using 85 studies, the paper focuses on the regular claim that land registration’s facilitation of formal documents-based land dealings leads to investment in a more productive agriculture. The paper shows that this claim is problematic for three reasons. First, most studies offer no empirical evidence to support the claim on the above-mentioned effect. Second, there are suggestions that land registration can actually threaten ‘de facto’ tenure security or even lead to insecurity of tenure. Third, the gendered realization of land registration and security may lead to uneven distribution of costs and benefits, but these effects are often ignored. Next to suggesting the importance of land information updating and the efficiency of local land management institutions, this paper also finds that more research with a combined locally-set approach is needed to better understand any relation(s) between land tenure security and agricultural productivity.

Land Tenure and Agricultural Productivity on Indian Reservations

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry L. Anderson ◽  
Dean Lueck
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Indian Reservations

Water pricing in China and India: a comparative analysis

Water Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (S1) ◽  
pp. 103-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dajun Shen ◽  
V. Ratna Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Water Pricing ◽  
Simple Approach ◽  
Pricing Policy ◽  
China And India ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Water Issues ◽  
Recent Policy

This paper explores the intricate issues that prompt water pricing reform in China and India. China adopts a comprehensive pricing framework of cost of resources, treatment and distribution, and environmental requirements, which has been gradually developed part by part since 1980 based on the perception and change of water issues in the country. India follows a simple approach of cost recovery, though its recent policy guidelines talk about more systematic pricing. The results present that both countries fail to realize water pricing policy targets regardless of different pricing structures. But China and India are on the same road and direction of water pricing and China goes a little farther. The treatment of water resources and its services, and property rights have a significant impact on pricing, and costs, including service, resources and environment, are difficult to recover.

What is driving conversion of land to aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim M. Daw ◽  
Sandip Giri ◽  
Partho Protim Mondal ◽  
Sourav Samanta ◽  
Sugata Hazra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Saline Water ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Indian Sundarbans ◽  
Conversion Rates ◽  
Development Goals

<p>Land in the Indian Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (SBR) has been extensively (and illegally) converted from agriculture to aquaculture over the last two decades, with implications for Sustainable Development Goals addressing food, poverty, employment, terrestrial and marine ecosystems and inequality. The economic returns from aquaculture are higher than agriculture, but more unequally shared, demand for labour is lower (and often fullfilled by non-local workers) and the expansion of brackish water aquaculture, in particular can contribute to the salinization of land through seepage from ponds, and intentional water management to bring saline water to farms. While remote sensing can demonstrate the conversion, the drivers behind are less clear. Much literature, along with commonly articulated stakeholder perspectives strongly suggest that sea-level rise and cyclone impacts lead to salinization, resulting in reduced agricultural productivity, leading farmers to convert to saline aquaculture as an adaptation. However, this is unclear in the Indian Sundarbans where the highest rates of conversion are not in areas which have suffered saline inundation. SBR-wide factors that affect rates of conversion include international demand for prawns, technology development and transfer, availability of seed, legal frameworks and land tenure. At a more local level, connectivity (for inputs and for marketing product), proximity to water sources, levels of cyclone inundation, salinity and agricultural productivity, existing aquaculture areas, extension services and local government (dis)incentives may explain spatial patterns of differing conversion rates. In this paper we use a two-decade long timeseries of remotely sensed data on land cover and agricultural productivity along with spatially explicit data on connectivity to evaluate which factors were most associated with conversion from agriculture to aquaculture in the past two decades. We then project future possible conversion based on scenarios of how these drivers may change over the the next decade and discuss their implications for Sustainable Development Goals.</p>

Agricultural Productivity Growth in Pakistan and India: A Comparative Analysis (Distinguishedl Lecture)

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (4I) ◽  
pp. 433-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W. Rosegrant ◽  
Robert E. Evenson
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Wheat Varieties ◽  
Partial Factor Productivity ◽  
Partial Factor

Estimates of partial factor productivity growth for rice and wheat in India and Pakistan have shown relatively rapid growth in yields per hectare since adoption of modem rice and wheat varieties began in the mid-to-Iate 1960s [Byerlee (1990); Rosegrant (1991)]. Yields per hectare for rice and wheat grew slowly prior to the green revolution, then increased dramatically (Table 1). In Pakistan, yield growth from 1965 to 1975 was particularly rapid, but declined sharply after that. Indian yields grew more slowly than in Pakistan in the early green revolution period, but higher yield growth was sustained in India after 1975.

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