Land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: Causal linkages and research gaps

By Stein T. Holden, Hosaena Ghebru. 2016

217 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract This paper reviews the literature to identify the relationship between tenure security and food security. The literatures on tenure issues and food security issues are not well connected and the scientific evidence on the causal links between tenure security and food security is very limited. The paper explores the conceptual linkages between land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security and illustrates how these vary across diverse contexts. The paper then reviews the limited number of high quality studies that contribute to a causal chain analysis between tenure security and food security and identifies important research gaps.

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

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. T. Jayne
2. Rie Muraoka
3. Songqing Jin
4. M. Muyanga
5. Jordan Chamberlin
6. C. Ragasa
7. A. Chapoto
8. Jacob Ricker-Gilbert

In Soil Science

1. T. Jayne
2. Rie Muraoka
3. Songqing Jin
4. M. Muyanga
5. K. Deininger
6. K. Otsuka
7. Jordan Chamberlin

In Urban Studies

1. T. Jayne
2. Rie Muraoka
3. Songqing Jin
4. M. Muyanga
5. K. Deininger

Citations in the corpus

• Land Access, Land Rental and Food Security: Evidence from Kenya (2014, background): “Maxwell and Wiebe (1999) and Holden and Ghebru (2016) provide comprehensive reviews of the literature examining the relationship between access to land and access to food in an agrarian economy (Drèze and Sen, 1989; Shipton, 1990; Barraclough, 1991; and Rahmato, 1993; Holden et al., 2008).”