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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Main Authors:	Deininger, Klaus, Xia, Fang, Holden, Stein
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	land tenure gender tenure insecurity investment agriculture productivity smallholders estates
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

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spelling	okr-10986-259522021-06-08T14:42:47Z Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Holden, Stein land tenure gender tenure insecurity investment agriculture productivity smallholders estates 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. 2017-01-30T18:00:46Z 2017-01-30T18:00:46Z 2017-01 Working Paper 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7943 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Malawi
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spellingShingle	land tenure gender tenure insecurity investment agriculture productivity smallholders estates Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Holden, Stein Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
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description	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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author	Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Holden, Stein
author_facet	Deininger, Klaus Xia, Fang Holden, Stein
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title	Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
title_short	Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
title_full	Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
title_fullStr	Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
title_full_unstemmed	Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems
title_sort	gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in malawi's customary tenure systems
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	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
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Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems

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