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La renta en la horticultura de La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina): causas de su heterogeneidad intra y extrarregional

Journal Articles & Books
May, 2017
Argentina

El objetivo del artículo es analizar los motivos del alto monto del arrendamiento de la tierra en La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina), en relación con otras regiones hortícolas, a la vez de identificar las variables que hacen que dicho arrendamiento muestre importantes variaciones incluso en el interior de la capital bonaerense.

Can the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? Evidence from northern Ethiopia

December, 2016
Ethiopia

The paper utilizes household panel data to investigate whether the land rental market can facilitate improved access to land for land-poor tenant households over time and thereby facilitate expansion of their farming activity. The paper utilizes data 8-17 years after land certification to assess the long-term effect of land certification on the allocative efficiency in the land rental market in areas where land certification stimulated land renting in the early years after certification.

How pro-poor are land rental markets in Ethiopia?

December, 2015
Ethiopia

Land rental markets can potentially improve the access to land for land-poor households that possess complementary resources that can enable them to utilize land efficiently. Land rental markets can also enable landowners who are poor in non-land resources to rent out their land such that their land is utilized more efficiently and they themselves can get a better income and improved welfare from their land resource. This report assesses the land rental market that is dominated by a reverse tenancy system with relatively poorer landlords and less poor tenants.

Access to land via Land Rental Markets

December, 1998

Previous studies of land contracts have focused more on efficiency questions than on determinants of access to land and dynamics of access. By looking closely at the question of access to land, the authors conclude:land rental contracts more friendly to the poor than land sales markets to access land.

Factor market imperfections and the land rental market in the highlands of Eritrea: theory and evidence

December, 2003
Eritrea
Sub-Saharan Africa

This paper looks at the role of market imperfections in explaining leasing behaviour of households using sample data from the Highlands of Eritrea. It looks at the tenancy or land rental market, the position of households in that market (as landlords, tenants or non-participants) and assesses the transaction costs related to the adjustment process in the tenancy market.The paper tests for fixed and variable transaction costs related to adjustment in the land rental market. A two-stage approach for participation in the market as landlords or tenants is used for this.

Kinship, transaction costs and land rental market participation

December, 2004
Ethiopia
Sub-Saharan Africa

With land being the main source of income for many people in the developing world, security of access or ownership rights is imperative to the alleviation of rural povety. Past polices of land redistribution, prohibition of land renting and later legalisation of short-term contracts only, may have prevented or undermined tenancy markets in Ethiopia. This paper examines the allocative efficiency of the land rental market in Northern Ethiopia, and the extent to which adjustment in the tenancy market is constrained by transaction costs.

Migration and land rental as risk response in rural China

December, 2010
China
Eastern Asia
Oceania

Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participation as responses to risk in rural China.
The authors show that over the last 30 years, there have been significant reforms in China, which have increased labour mobility and the functioning of rural land markets. The authors emphasise that while limitations still remain, the reforms have to date increased the efficiency of the allocation of these important factors of production.

Land rental market activity in agrarian reform areas: evidence from the Philippines

December, 2007
Philippines

Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households’ participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) which imposes restriction on the conveyance and transfer (including rental) of all lands awarded under the program.

Why is land productivity lower on land rented out by female landlords?: theory, and evidence from Ethiopia

December, 2007
Ethiopia
Sub-Saharan Africa

There is a common view and belief that women are the ones that do the farming in Africa while the men do not work much. This paper seeks to find explanations to why land productivity is lower on land rented out by female landlord households than on land rented out by male landlord households in the Ethiopian highlands. The authors find that female landlords have tenants who are older, own less oxen, are more related, and under longer-term contracts.

Assentamento Dois Riachões: A luta pela terra e agroecologia

Reports & Research
August, 2018
Brazil

O Assentamento Dois Riachões é composto por 38 famílias, com cerca de 170 pessoas e está situada no município de Ibirapitanga-BA no território Baixo Sul da Bahia no Bioma Mata Atlântica a 380 km da capital - Salvador. A Comunidade está organizada em associação, composta por uma coordenação colegiada, representantes da executiva (presidente, secretário e tesoureiro) e setores de produção (gênero, e

Propiedad de la tierra en el MERCOSUR

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2011
Argentina

Las asimetrías en la propiedad de la tierra en los países del MERCOSUR se originaron, desde mediados del Siglo XIX, en procesos históricos resultantes de políticas económicas y demográficas impulsadas por los incipientes Estados nacionales de la región. El tema de la tierra es tratado generalmente sólo como recurso productivo agrario, y con frecuencia aparece descontextualizado de los factores que determinan las condiciones de su acceso y uso por parte de los diferentes sectores socio-agrarios de cada país y en el plano regional.