Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/266351484763758405/Gender-differentiated-impacts-of-tenure-insecurity-on-agricultural-performance-in-Malawis-customary-tenure-systems http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25952 |
| Summary: | Many African countries rely on sporadic
land transfers from customary to statutory domains to
attract investment and improve agricultural performance.
Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi
allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy.
The results suggest that (i) most estates are less
productive than smallholders; (ii) fear of land loss,
although not exclusively due to estates, is associated with
a 12 percent productivity loss for females, which is large
enough to finance a low-cost tenure regularization program;
and (iii) failure to collect realistic land rents implies
public revenue losses of up to US$50 million per year. |
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