The emergence of land markets in Africa assessing the impacts on poverty, equity, and efficiency

This book is the first systematic attempt to address emerging land markets and their implications for poverty, equity, and efficiency across a number of African countries. The high incidence of poverty and the need for increased agricultural productivity remain acute in rural areas of sub-Saharan Af...

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Otros Autores: Holden, Stein Terje (-), Otsuka, Keijiro, Place, Frank, Dr
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Resources for the Future c2009.
Edición:1st edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa Assessing the Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I: Conceptual Frameworks; CHAPTER 1. Land Markets and Development in Africa; CHAPTER 2. Understanding Land Markets: Questions and Hypotheses; Part II: Land Markets, Allocative Efficiency, and Poverty: Who Has Access to Land?; CHAPTER 3. Land Rental Markets: Transaction Costs and Tenure Insecurity in Rural Ethiopia; CHAPTER 4. Factor Market Imperfections and Rural Land Rental Markets in Northern Ethiopian Highlands
  • CHAPTER 5. Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Land Markets in KenyaCHAPTER 6. Land Rental Market Participation and Tenure Security in Malawi; CHAPTER 7. Land Markets in Uganda: What Is Their Impact and Who Benefits?; Part III: Contract Choice, Poverty, and Efficiency of Land Use; CHAPTER 8. Contract Choice and Poverty in Southern Highlands of Ethiopia; CHAPTER 9. Gender and Land Productivity on Rented Land in Ethiopia; CHAPTER 10. Kinship, Tenure Insecurity, Input Use and Land Productivity: The Case of Sharecropping in Ethiopia; Part IV: Land Markets, Land Tenure, and Land Management
  • CHAPTER 11. Land Rental Markets and Land Management in the Highlands of EthiopiaCHAPTER 12. Land Rental Markets and Land Management: Evidence from Uganda; CHAPTER 13. Land Conflicts and Soil Management: Evidence from Kenya; CHAPTER 14. Land Markets and Poverty in Perspective; References; Index