Introduction: the pressing need to secure women’s property rights under unprecedented land pressure and tenure reform

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Land Pressure

scholarly journals The Virtuous Cycle of Property

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Fabbri ◽  
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Dictator Game ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Large Scale Land ◽  
Virtuous Cycle ◽  
Positive Effect

The article shows that formalizing private property rights has a positive effect on the propensity to respect the property of others. We study a recent large-scale land tenure reform in West Africa which was the first of its kind to be implemented as a randomized control-trial. Results of a modified dictator game show that the formalization of private property rights reduced an individual's willingness to take from others' endowment. We used additional experimental measures and post-experimental survey data to rule out alternative explanations for the observed behavior that do not imply a change in preferences.

scholarly journals Has China’s New Round of Collective Forestland Tenure Reform Caused an Increase in Rural Labor Transfer?

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 284
Author(s):  
Liu Yang ◽  
Yang Ren
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Rural Labor ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Agricultural Employment ◽  
Force Increase ◽  
Labor Transfer ◽  
Forestry Policies ◽  
Binary Probit

To investigate the rural labor transfer effects of China’s Collective Forestland Tenure Reform (CFTR), we employ binary probit models by using survey data of 694 households from China’s northern collective forest areas. The results reveal that the improved property rights, including rights for forestland use, disposition and beneficiaries, and refined tenure security under the CFTR generally have caused an increase in rural household labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. Besides, we find that forestry-dominated households’ risk perceptions on forestland reallocation and expropriation have significantly dampened rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. These can be explained by the fact that the strengthening of forestland property rights brought about by the CFTR can promote an increase in the forestland transfer rate and improve the forestland relocation efficiency. This, in turn, will lead to the liberation of the rural labor force, increase the non-agricultural employment rate of farmers, and ultimately lead to an increase in the rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector. Therefore, these findings indicate that to motivate rural labor transfer to the nonfarm sector in the context of the Chinese government’s call for urbanization and other developing countries’ handling of similar circumstances, policymakers should further refine household forestland property rights and better protect forestland tenure security by continuing to improve related forestry policies.

Property rights, tenure security and forest investment incentives: evidence from China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Yi ◽  
Gunnar Köhlin ◽  
Jintao Xu
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
Large Database ◽  
Tenure Security ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Collective Forest Tenure Reform

AbstractThis paper assesses how tenure reform in China's collective forest sector affects Chinese farmer households’ perception of tenure security and propensity to invest in their forestland. A large database consisting of information from 3,180 households in eight provinces from south to north is used to explore factors correlated with more strongly perceived tenure security and determinants of forest-related investment. The study adds to the limited research testing whether there is endogenous causality between investment and tenure security in forestland, and finds that investment was not undertaken to enhance tenure security. In addition, the data allow for differentiation between perceived tenure security and contracted use and transferability rights. Overall, stronger contracted rights were found to affect investment. China's forest tenure reform – where individual households can manage forestland, empowered by legal certification and stronger contract rights – has thus enhanced tenure security and encouraged forest investment.

Forest Tenure Reform in China: A Choice Experiment on Farmers' Property Rights Preferences

2011 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Qin ◽  
F. Carlsson ◽  
J. Xu
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Tenure

Herders response to acute land pressure under changing property rights: some insights from Kajiado District, Kenya

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANE KABUBO-MARIARA
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Common Property ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Private Property Rights ◽  
Regression Framework ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Land Pressure

This paper examines the response of herders to increased shortage and degradation of land in an arid and semi-arid land setting in Kenya, under changing property right regimes using both survey and secondary data. We argue that the responses adopted are livelihood strategies to improve herder's welfare. We explore the determinants of three different strategies: crop cultivation, investment in land improvements, and migration with livestock. We employ the probit regression framework to explain each strategy. The main findings of the study are that private property rights, educational attainment, and availability of water are major determinants of the three strategies. We recommend policies that favour privatization of existing common property resources, improve education levels, and increase supply of water in the district.

scholarly journals Effect of Land Property Rights on Forest Resources in Southern China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Hua Li ◽  
Long Cheng ◽  
Youliang Ning
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Resource ◽  
Tenure Reform ◽  
Forest Resource Management ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Land Property Rights

The land tenure reform is important for forest resource management worldwide. Since China initiated a new round of collective forestland tenure reform (CFTR) in 2003, improving forest output by clarifying property rights plays a crucial role in realizing sustainable forest resource management. Using survey data of 312 bamboo plantation households from Southern China, this paper empirically examines the impact path of land property rights on forest resources. The estimation results show that both the forestland use right and disposal right are able to significantly improve the forest output by encouraging households to invest and optimizing the allocation of forestry labor. Particularly, the results reveal that the use right has a positive impact on forest output through forestland investment. With regard to the disposal right, we find that it has a positive effect on forest output through forestland investment, but it has a negative impact on forest output through the forestry labor allocation. The findings of this study suggest that to promote the growth of forest resources, the government should endow households with a more complete set of rights, and further strengthen their understanding of property rights. In addition, our findings enhance the understanding of the collective forestland tenure reform in China; they also have implications for the decentralized management of forestry elsewhere in the world.

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