Gender-Differentiated Impacts of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi's Customary Tenure Systems

Deininger, Klaus ; Xia, Fang ; Holden, Stein

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: land tenure;    gender;    tenure insecurity;    investment;    agriculture productivity;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7943
RP-ID  :  WPS7943

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Many African countries rely on sporadicland transfers from customary to statutory domains toattract investment and improve agricultural performance.Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawiallow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy.The results suggest that (i) most estates are lessproductive than smallholders; (ii) fear of land loss,although not exclusively due to estates, is associated witha 12 percent productivity loss for females, which is largeenough to finance a low-cost tenure regularization program;and (iii) failure to collect realistic land rents impliespublic revenue losses of up to US$50 million per year.