Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets: evidence from Ethiopia

By K. Deininger, D. Ali, Tekie Alemu. 2008

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Although early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure rights in view of increased demand for land, options for registration of a continuum of individual or communal rights under new laws, and the scope for reducing costs by combining information technology with participatory methods have led to renewed interest. This paper uses a difference-in-difference approach to assess economic impacts of a low-cost registration program in Ethiopia that, over 5 years, covered some 20 million parcels. Despite policy constraints, the program increased tenure security, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of implementation.

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

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Land Access, Land Rental and Food Security: Evidence from Kenya (2014, background): “…land-poor households to access land (see Jin and Deininger, 2009 and Kimura et al., 2011 for evidence on China; Deininger and Jin, 2008 on Vietnam; Deininger et al., 2008 on India; Deininger et al., 2011, and Gebregziabher and Holden, 2011 on Ethiopia; Migot-Adholla et al., 1994 on Ghana;…”
Power and property: commercialization, enclosures, and the transformation of agrarian relations in Ethiopia (2012, background): “While not necessarily going as far as the advocates of privatization would like, in 1998 the government initiated a land certification program that has been hailed as a model of low-cost effective titling (Deininger et al. 2008).”
Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “…to their land holding over the next five years) but also on land-related investment (a 29 point increase in the likelihood of having made repairs or new investments in the last 12 months) and a 9 percentage point increase in the propensity of renting out land (Deininger, Ali, and Alemu 2008).”
How does population density influence agricultural intensification and productivity? Evidence from Malawi (2014, result): “Although this is a perception from farmers in our field group surveys and a body of literature (Holden and Yohannes, 2002; Deininger et al., 2009; Deininger and Jin, 2006), some studies have noted that the reverse is actually true (Pender, 2001).”