This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land. We find the reform led to increases in land rental activity in rural households. Consistent with a model of transaction costs in land markets, our results indicate that the formalization of leasing rights resulted in a redistribution of land toward more productive farmers. Con...

Malawi, similar to other Southern African countries, has adopted new water, land, and irrigation policies and legislation involving promotion of decentralized management, user groups, and privatization of resources previously under customary or public tenure. We examine how the water and land policies intersect with the new irrigation policy, and are being played out in the context of two small...

Improving access to adequate housing is a global development priority. Formalisation of property rights occupies central role in this agenda, based on long-held ideas about the weaknesses informal arrangements cities. In practice, however, we know remarkably little how markets urban areas work. Drawing both quantitative and qualitative data, paper demonstrates that institutional Dar es Salaam a...

ABSTRACT: This study is explored the reasons why greenhouse farmers take out and do not agricultural insurance as well farmers’ inclinations toward factors that affect them so can be improved. In this context, three districts of Antalya where farming intensively carried out, namely Aksu, Serik Kumluca, were selected research location, face-to-face interviews conducted with 200 farmers, 100 whic...

Using data collected from 400 farming households in the Casamance area of Senegal, the paper demonstrates that not only farm and farmers' characteristics, but also farmers' perceptions of technology-speci®c characteristics, signi®cantly in ̄uence adoption decisions relating to improved rice varieties. Farmers' perceptions about improved rice varieties were quanti®ed using a quasi-arbitrary ordin...

This paper develops a theory of the interaction between appropriative conflict and economic growth. Appropriative conflict, as measured by the diversion of resources, is viewed as the cost of securing effective property rights. We identify conditions under which conflict rises or falls as the rate of economic growth improves. The main implication of the analysis is that if the quality of proper...

Agri-environment schemes have been developed by the member states of the European Union over the last 10 years. Under Regulation 2078/92, the UK has supported English Nature in the implementation of a nature conservation scheme for wet grazing land in southern England. This paper explores the different understandings of nature held by farmers and conservationists who are participating in the Wi...