The Impact of Land Certification on Tree Growing on Private Plots of Rural Households: Evidence from Ethiopia
EfD Authors:
This is a chapter in the book entitled 'Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management'.
The book is about land tenure policies from an international perspective. It adds on the first book published by Holden and Otsuka entitled The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: Assessing the Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency (2009) in a much deeper way with a stronger and clearer focus on policy issues.
Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management
EfD Authors:
This book is about land tenure policies from an international perspective. It adds on the first book published by Holden and Otsuka entitled The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa: Assessing the Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency (2009) in a much deeper way with a stronger and clearer focus on policy issues.
Trust, tenure insecurity, and land certification in rural Ethiopia
EfD Authors:
This paper assesses the impact of a landcertification program in Ethiopia on the level of interpersonal and institutional trust among households in the Amhara region. The landcertification program is designed to enhance landtenure security of farmers, by maintaining (egalitarian) status quo land distribution and equity concerns.
The impact of land management systems on community attitudes towards tourism and conservation in six southern African countries
Many rural areas of Africa are characterised by high levels of unemployment, poverty and increasing population densities. Arid climates and erratic rainfall also make many of these areas marginal for agriculture and offer few alternative employment opportunities. Ecotourism in these areas can offer a sustainable land use option that promotes biodiversity conservation, can assist in poverty reduction and promote local socio-economic development. Receipt of benefits from ecotourism is also claimed to improve community attitudes towards conservation.
Food-for-work for poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable land use: can it work?
EfD Authors:
Food-for-work (FFW) programs are commonly used both for short-term relief and long-term development purposes. This paper assesses the potential of FFW programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run.
Tenure insecurity, transaction costs in the land lease market and their implications for gendered productivity differentials
EfD Authors:
The study sets out to assess the link between land leasing behavior and productivity differentials between male and female headed households.
Fate of China’s CO2 Sealed with its Currency Regime
EfD Authors:
Everyone wants to blame the undervalued Yuan for global problems. Economists have claimed it will prolong the global recession. Pundits link the export-driven economy to lax environmental regulations and low labor standards. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called it a contributing factor in a round of capital controls and currency-market interventions by emerging economies.
For as much heat as the Yuan is getting, you’d think it was responsible for global warming.
Land Reforms in Asia and Africa - Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management
A new EfD/RFF Book titled "Land Reforms in Asia and Africa - Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management" is planned for 2012. Editors are Professors Stein Holden and Keijiro Otsuka.
The research project on land reforms is ongoing, and a first book workshop was held on Jan 24-25, 2010, at Peking University.