Land Tenure and Indian Agricultural Productivity

1976 ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. N. Junankar
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Productivity

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

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>

Land Tenure Systems and Agricultural Productivity in Gombe Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ibrahim Dabara ◽  
Lawal Omotoso ◽  
Augustina Chiwuzie ◽  
Olusegun Joseph Omotehinshe ◽  
John Oyekunle Soladoye
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Land Tenure Systems

Can Customary Land Tenure Facilitate Agricultural Productivity Growth? Evidence from Burkina Faso

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-455
Author(s):  
Yoko Kusunose ◽  
Véronique Thériault ◽  
Didier Alia
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Customary Land

scholarly journals Land Tenure Systems and Agricultural Productivity in Gombe Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Daniel Ibrahim Dabara ◽  
Omotoso Kabir Lawal ◽  
Augustina Chiwuzie ◽  
Olusegun Joseph Omotehinshe ◽  
John Oyekunle Soladoye
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Statistical Tool ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Importance Index ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Land Tenure Systems

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. The targeted population for the study comprised of 7,832 households in purposively selected agrarian settlements cutting across the 3 senatorial districts in Gombe state Nigeria. The population was stratified into three zones and two locations were selected from each zone. The sample size for the study comprised of 500 households in each of the study locations. Hence, 500 questionnaires were administered on the household heads of the 6 study locations making a total of 3,000 questionnaires (representing 38.3% of the targeted population). However only 2,223 (74.1%) questionnaires were correctly filled and returned for analysis. The random sampling technique was adopted in the questionnaire administration. Descriptive statistical tools such as frequency counts, averages, weighted mean and percentages were used in analyzing the data obtained. The Relative Importance Index (RII) was used to identify and rank the variables. Inferential statistical tool such as multiple regressions were also used in analyzing the relationship between the criterion or dependent variable and the predictors or independent variables. The study revealed that customary land tenure system is the predominant type of tenure system (60.1%) practiced in the study area. Similarly, agricultural productivity in the study area was shown to be impeded by land tenure insecurity (RII, 0.933963), political/bureaucratic bottlenecks in land rights acquisition for agricultural purposes (0.846154) and tenure rules such as stipulated in the Nigerian Land Use Act of 1978 (RII, 0.65596) among others. The study also showed a strong positive relationship of 0.809 between land tenure systems and agricultural productivity in the study area. The study concluded that for better agricultural productivity in the study area in particular and similar developing economies in general, farmers need to have secured land tenure as this encourages investments in the secured land which consequently improves agricultural productivity.

scholarly journals Collateral: The Sword of Damocles of the Small-scale Farmers; Land Tenure Issues in Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-63
Author(s):  
Douglas Ncube
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Small Scale Farmers

Introduction:Numerous studies have been conducted on tenure and how it affects agricultural productivity. However, in Africa, its complexity emanates from the existence of various types of land tenure systems. This study examined hypotheses derived from the economic theory of property rights.Problem Statement:It is difficult to comprehend the manner in which land tenure issues influences farmer incentives. A perception is held regarding the complexity of instituting policy reforms to ‘fix’ tenure problems.Methodology:Thе еconomic rеѕеarch rеѕultѕ rеlatеd to land tеnurе, tеnurе ѕеcurity and thеir impact on land invеѕtmеntѕ and agricultural productivity, and how thеѕе rеlatе to hypothеѕеѕ gеnеratеd from thе еconomic thеory of propеrty rightѕ in Africa were evaluated. The study is essentially a qualitative approach and is based on literature review and secondary data sources.Results:There is an intimate link between Land tenure development and various constructs of political economic issues such as governance, democracy, empowerment, social justice, equity and development. Consequently, until the recognition of historical issues and political challenges associated with resource redistribution, any solutions to land and tenure questions will lack context and will fail to fulfil the crucial aim of transforming property relations and creating social change. There are convergence and divergence of economic research on land tenure.Conclusion:Land tenure reform is a time-consuming process requiring thorough public consultation and careful preparation. Recently, many international organisations and governments have embarked on land purchases/grabs in Africa exposing smallholder farmers to the arbitrary land acquisition and hence, exacerbating food insecurity in Africa.

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