The MARORA model is used to evaluate the economics of investment in on-farm reservoirs in Arkansas under alternative land tenure arrangements. A declining groundwater supply coupled with a high percentage of rice-production area owned by absentee landowners makes investment decision-making on on-farm reservoirs an important issue for the sustainability of rice in Arkansas. The MARORA model is s...

This paper was prepared under contract with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The positions and opinions presented are those of the authors alone and are not intended to represent the views of FAO. This study highlights lessons from recent policy, law and practice to improve and secure access to rural land for poorer groups. It focuses on Africa, Latin America a...

This paper provides an introduction to best practice in land administration systems. It draws on a number of key documents such as the Land Administration Guidelines produced for the United Nations (UN) Economic Commission for Europe (1996), the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Statement on the Cadastre (1995), the UN-FIG Bogor Declaration on Cadastral Reform (1996), the FIG Cadastre...

This paper was published in June 2003 as a chapter in: Roth, Michael, and Gonese, Francis eds. 2003. Delivering Land and Securing Rural Livelihoods: Post-Independence Land Reform and Resettlement in Zimbabwe. 2 Harare and Madison: Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, and Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://www.wisc.edu/ltc/zimbabwe/zimbooktoc.html ...

In the 1990s, official land policy debates in Southern Africa have become focused on two strategies: promoting freehold land markets to replace so-called customary tenure zones and expanding ‘commercial farming’ through market mechanisms. These two strategies are expected to resolve the escalating land problems. Yet, in the guise of promoting sustainable land use, environmental care, new agricu...

Tenure insecurity and thin land rental markets weakened the incentives to farmland investment in rural China, which was not conducive improving agricultural productivity. Thus, impacts of tenure security transfer on were analyzed by using household fixed effect model, IV method a 762 household-level 1163 plot-level data set. The results indicated that: (1) compared with owned plots, number farm...

Rural land plans (RLP) and the systematic cluster approach (SCA) are two main approaches used in Benin to secure rural tenure. However, contributions of these tenure security communities mixed. This paper firstly identifies factors be considered conceptualizing secondly assesses achieving security. The study is conducted four communes Borgou (a district North Benin) that have benefited from bot...

Systems for the administration of land issues are a common public service at the local or national level in most states of the world. Such organizations have evolved or have been established at different times in different societies, but their emergence in such diverse situations suggests that they fulfil an essential public service function which is quite uniform. The economic and social ratio...