Land Tenure and Investment Incentives: Evidence from West Africa

By James Fenske. 2011

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1. D. Ali
2. K. Deininger
3. Stein T. Holden
4. M. Qaim
5. K. Otsuka
6. C. Kubitza
7. V. Krishna
8. Kira Urban

Citations in the corpus

• Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “In Africa, following a seminal study in Ghana (Besley 1995), weak rights, often held by disadvantaged groups such as women or outsiders, can undermine investment and reduce productivity (Deininger and Jin 2006, Fenske 2011, Goldstein and Udry 2008).”
• An African account of ecosystem service provision : use, threats and policy options for sustainable livelihoods (2012, background): “Full right over land should encourage investment because land rights strengthen claims to the fruits of investment, increasing access to capital, allowing for gains from trade, and providing the cultivator with freedom to innovate (Fenske, 2011).”
• Land property rights, agricultural intensification, and deforestation in Indonesia (2018, background): “For agricultural land, studies have analyzed effects of tenure security on input intensity and crop productivity (Deininger et al., 2011; Fenske, 2011; Bellemare, 2013), yet without linking this to potential deforestation outcomes.”
• Understanding the agricultural input landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : recent plot, household, and community-level evidence (2014, unknown): “Evidence from certain countries shows that land tenure does affect input intensification (e.g., Gavian and Fafchamps 1996; Holden and Yohannes 2002) while others find no connection (e.g., Fenske 2011; Pender et al. 2004; Place and Hazell 1993).”
• The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa (2014, background): “Here, we only review studies that have been undertaken in Africa and refer the reader to Binswanger et al. (1995), Eastwood et al. (2010) for more comprehensive reviews of the literature.”