—Titling of Indigenous common-property lands in eastern Nicaragua is a necessary base for forest management. Titling alone will not be sufficient to assure sustainable practices, and the success of demarcation programmes rests on processes of negotiation leading up to tenure decisions; nevertheless, a review of decades of history in Indigenous territories suggests that key problems in forest re...

A double hurdle statistical analysis of 250 farms in the Tigray region of Ethiopia reveals different causal factors for soil conservation adoption versus intensity of use. Farmers’ reasons for adopting soil conservation measures vary sharply between stone terraces and soil bunds. Long-term investments in stone terraces were associated with secure land tenure, labour availability, proximity to t...

Land tenure security is key to rural transformation, diversification, increased agricultural production, and environmental sustainability. However, its determinants are still unclear, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where land insecurity widespread. The study evaluated the of using ordered probit model. Using pre-tested semi-structured questionnaires, data were collected from 366 respon...

[email protected] www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca fax 416 978-7162 The rapid urbanization process of developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s has intensified pressures on the use of resources at rates that demanded alternative solutions beyond local capacities. For example, the number of jobs that needed to be created to accommodate the unskilled migrants was a task that proved to b...

Land tenure security is important to agricultural development, especially in developing countries. Viet Nam’s land law has been significantly improved since its economic reform starting 1986, and made a great contribution the enhancement of farmers’ land-use rights. However, transition modern economy as emerging Nam, there remain challenges rights such limitation arable landholding ceiling, unn...

This paper evaluates the impact of village-level land reallocations in China on household economic outcomes. Since land was decollectivized in China in 1983, village leaders have implemented regular forced reallocations of land designed to enhance intravillage equity and attain other policy goals. I estimate the impact of insecure tenure using the past history of land shifts as an instrument fo...