scholarly journals Enhancement of Land Tenure Relations as a Factor of Sustainable Agricultural Development: Case of Stavropol Krai, Russia

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Trukhachev ◽  
Anna Ivolga ◽  
Marina Lescheva
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Stavropol Krai

Land Control in Kenya

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Coldham
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Nineteen Fifties ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Class A ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Land Control

As the land adjudication and consolidation programme made progress in the Kikuyu Land Unit in the middle of the nineteen-fifties, it became clear that the traditional system of land tenure would have to be replaced by a system based on the registration of individual titles. Customary law was seen as an obstacle to agricultural development. Customary rules of inheritance could destroy the benefits of land consolidation. Moreover, the individual farmer had little incentive to develop his holding under customary arrangements. This point of view was illustrated by the Swynnerton Plan which proposed that “the African farmer … be provided with such security of tenure through an indefeasible title as will encourage him to invest his labour and profits into the development of his farm and as will enable him to offer it as security against financial credits”. Swynnerton hoped that the security of title conferred by registration would create a land market enabling fanners owning unviable plots or unworkable fragments to sell them off to neighbours who would be in a position to develop them more effectively. In this way “… energetic or rich Africans will be able to acquire more land and bad or poor farmers less, creating a landed and a landless class”, a process which he calls “a normal step in the evolution of a country”.

Colonial Origins of the Public Domain in Southern Somalia (1892–1912)

1978 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco M. G. Guadagni
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Horn Of Africa ◽  
The Public ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Ethiopian Plateau ◽  
Commercial Area ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Law

This essay is part of a study on the development of land law in Somalia from the end of the last century up to present times. In the following pages an attempt is made to illustrate some of the legal problems connected with the grafting of Western law onto an African land tenure system in a colonial setting. Originally agricultural development and exploitation was not the determining aim of the Italian occupation on the Indian Ocean Coast. In the early Italian plans for colonial expansion on the Horn of Africa, Somalia was primarily regarded as an important political and commercial area. The ultimate goal of these plans was the fertile lands of the Ethiopian plateau, towards which Eritrea and Somalia contained respectively, the Northern and Southern access routes. Occupation of the upper and lower regions of what would be the Italian East Africa colony (Africa Orientale Italiana) was the political and military preliminary to conquering the Ethiopian highlands, the produce of which, once the conquest of the whole Horn of Africa had been completed, would find its natural outlets through Eritrean and Somali ports.

scholarly journals Developing the north: learning from the past to guide future plans and policies

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ash ◽  
Ian Watson
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Physical Capital ◽  
Investment Planning ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North

The development of northern Australia has been a policy ambition for over a century and the desire to do so continues unabated. Attempts to develop the north, especially for more intensive forms of agriculture are not new. In this paper we explore past agricultural developments, including some that persist today and those that have failed, to determine critical factors in success or failure. This was done with the aim of identifying where most effort should focus in supporting contemporary agricultural developments. Although climatic and environmental constraints, including pests and diseases, remain a challenge for agricultural development in these largely tropical rangelands, it is mainly factors associated with finances and investment planning, land tenure and property rights, management, skills, and supply chains, which provide the critical challenges. In particular, the desire to scale-up too rapidly and the associated failure to invest sufficient time and resources in management to learn how to develop appropriate farming systems that are sustainable and economically viable is a recurrent theme through the case study assessment. Scaling up in a more measured way, with a staged approach to the investment in physical capital, should better allow for the inevitable set-backs and the unexpected costs in developing tropical rangelands for agriculture. There are two notable differences from the historical mandate to develop. First is the acknowledgement that development should not disadvantage Indigenous people, that Indigenous people have strong interests and rights in land and water resources and that these resources will be deployed to further Indigenous economic development. Second, assessing environmental impacts of more intensive development is more rigorous than in the past and the resources and timeframes required for these processes are often underestimated.

scholarly journals A Programming Approach to Some Agriculture Policy Problems in West Pakistan

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl H. Gotsch
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Programming Approach ◽  
Agriculture Policy ◽  
Diffi Cult ◽  
Sectoral Growth ◽  
Policy Problems

Planners attempting to influence the course of a country's agricultural development can expect to confront a wide variety of problems which are diffi¬cult, perhaps impossible, to formalize. Many of these will involve the most significant decisions in determining an effective sectoral growth strategy. Ex¬amples that come readily to mind for agriculture include the asessment of the optimal level of resources to be devoted to research and extension activities, the development of viable credit and marketing institutions, provisions for produc¬tive land tenure arrangements, etc.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Farm Performance among Small-Scale Farmers in the Volcanic Highlands of Rwanda: What is the Role of Institutions?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-268
Author(s):  
Aristide Maniriho ◽  
Edouard Musabanganji ◽  
Philippe Lebailly
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Small Scale Farmers ◽  
Land Size ◽  
On Farm

This study attempted to examine the role of institutions in boosting rural and agricultural development in the region of the Volcanic Highlands of Rwanda. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from a random sample of 401 small-scale farmers through a questionnaire. Data were analyzed using a weighted least-squares method to account for heteroscedasticity, a common issue in cross-sectional studies. Results from crop output function reveal a positive and significant effect of cooperative membership, a negative but significant effect of extension services, and a negative non-significant effect of land tenure, credit access, and market access on farm production, respectively. In terms of net farm income function, the results demonstrate that farmer cooperation, land tenure, extension services, and access to output markets have a positive, non-significant influence, but that access to finance has a negative non-significant effect. Results also point to a positive and significant effect of some household characteristics, namely family size, farming experience, land size, and farm yield, on farm production. As for net farm income, education of the head, family size, farm experience, land size, farm yield, selling price, and cattle proved to be among primary determinants. It was therefore suggested that agricultural sector programs and activities should be readapted and strengthened in order to leverage rural and agricultural development in Rwanda.

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