Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

By D. Ali, K. Deininger, Markus Goldstein. 2011

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Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda.s nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects that is used to evaluate the pilot for this programme points to three main effects; namely, (i) improved land access for legally married women and better recordation of inheritance rights; (ii) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly pronounced for women; and (iii) a reduction in land market activity rather than distress sales. Implications for programme design and policy are discussed.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Gender and Agriculture : Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps (2013, unknown): “For example, a recent paper (Ali, Deininger, and Goldstein, 2011) shows that when land rights are strengthened for both men and women in Rwanda, higher investment results.”
Gender and Sustainability (2014, background): “’s (112) study of a pilot land tenure regularization (LTR) program in Rwanda found that the impact of LTR on land-related investments by female-headed households was double that of men, with femaleheaded households exhibiting a roughly 19 percentage point increase in likelihood of measures to constr”
Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Soil Conservation. Evidence from Malawi (2013, background): “Ali, Deininger, and Goldstein (2011), for example, ﬁnd that the implementation of the land regularization program in Rwanda has notably increased investment in soil conservation in particular for women.”
Is There a Farm Size–Productivity Relationship in African Agriculture? Evidence from Rwanda (2014, background): “They could thus easily undermine the sustainability of Rwanda’s recent, and in many respects exemplary (Ali et al. 2011), effort to demarcate and register all of the country’s 10.”
Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries 1 (2013, background): “previously had customary rights to the land, or if women only receive rights when legally married (Ali et al. 2011).”
Envirodevonomics: A Research Agenda for an Emerging Field (2015, background): “In one existing study in Rwanda, Ali et al. (2011) use a spatial regression discontinuity design to measure the impacts of a land titling program on a number of outcomes, including investments in soil fertility. They show that more secure land title increased investments in environmental quality, pa”