Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Soil Conservation. Evidence from Malawi
By Stefania Lovo. 2013
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Tenure insecurity can have important consequences for the conservation of natural resources. This paper focuses on two main sources of tenure insecurity, informal short-term tenancy contracts, and customary gender-biased inheritance practices. Using a large plot-level dataset from Malawi, the analysis employs a linear probability model with household fixed effects and finds that both sources of insecurity have a negative effect on soil conservation investments. These findings suggest that future land reforms should deal with the informality of the land rental market and address the gap between users and owners of land created by existing customary practices.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence (2017, unknown): “This is similar to the findings in Malawi that when women move to live with their husbands, they invest less in soil improvements (Lovo, 2016; Pircher et al., 2013) because they do not have long-term land tenure security.”
- Gender, Weather Shocks and Welfare: Evidence from Malawi (2018, background): “Death of the land owner, and consequently land inheritance, represents the main reason behind the transfer of land ownership, as a land market is absent and a rental market is newly emerging (Lovo, 2016).”