Tenure Insecurity, Gender, Low-cost Land Certification and Land Rental Market Participation in Ethiopia

By Stein T. Holden, K. Deininger, Hosaena Ghebru. 2011

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Abstract There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development and poverty reduction in Africa. This paper assesses effects on the allocative efficiency of the land rental market of the low-cost approach to land registration and certification of restricted property rights that was implemented in Ethiopia in the late 1990s. Four rounds of a balanced household panel from 16 villages in northern Ethiopia are analysed, showing that land certification initially enhanced land rental market participation of (potential) tenant and landlord households, especially those that are headed by females.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Stein T. Holden
2. K. Otsuka
3. K. Deininger
4. T. Jayne
5. B. Shiferaw
6. Hosaena Ghebru
7. D. Ali
8. John Pender

In Soil Science

1. Stein T. Holden
2. K. Otsuka
3. K. Deininger
4. T. Jayne
5. F. Place
6. B. Shiferaw
7. D. Ali
8. A. Quisumbing

In Urban Studies

1. K. Otsuka
2. Stein T. Holden

Citations in the corpus

• The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa (2014, background): “…2008) and Uganda (Deininger and Mpuga, 2008) serve as safety nets for poor-tenant households, while the land rental market can serve as a safety net for poor-landlord households in Ethiopia (Deininger et al., 2008; Ghebru and Holden, 2008, 2013; Gebregziabher and Holden, 2011; Holden et al., 2011).”