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Women’s land rights in Africa
| Content Provider | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
|---|---|
| Author | Ghebru, Hosaena |
| Organization | IFPRI - Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) |
| Organization | IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division |
| Organization | IFPRI - Africa Region |
| Description | 2019 ReSAKSS Annual Trends and Outlook Report 45 Anew wave of land reforms has swept across a large number of developing countries since the millennium. Prior to the millennium, land tenure reform toward an individual freehold system was seen as a prerequisite for development in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) by governments, development partners, and practitioners (Feder and Noronha 1987; Migot- Adholla et al. 1994). The arguments in favor of reforming the customary African land tenure system were mainly based on the neoclassical economic theory of property rights (Demsetz 1967; Barzel 1997) that predicts greater productivity as land tenure becomes more secure and individualized. Reflecting neoliberal thinking about private property rights, Besley (1995) identified three channels through which secure property rights can, in principle, bring about positive economic outcomes, namely (1) tenure security and higher land investment incentives; (2) smooth functioning of the land markets (tradability) that smooths farm input adjustment; and (3) facilitating access to institutional credit by allowing land to be used as collateral. These hypothesized effects of tenure security rely heavily on the neoclassical framework that presupposes markets for all goods and services (including credit and insurance markets) exist and, therefore, market clearing prices determine demand and supply choices of households (Bardhan 1989; Hoff, Braverman, and Stiglitz 1993). |
| Sponsorship | United States Agency for International Development Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Related Links | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/7c01d19f-3543-44ae-b78d-22cc880d0ad6 |
| File Format | |
| DOI | 10.2499/9780896293649_04 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| Publisher Date | 2019-10-31 |
| Publisher Place | Washington, DC |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 |
| Subject Keyword | Policies, Institutions, and Markets Agriculture for Nutrition and Health Gender Agricultural Policies Land Rights Poverty Rural Areas Women |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
| Subject | Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science |
