Land property rights and household take-up of development programs: Evidence from land certification program in Ethiopia

Sammanfattning

Access to secure land plays a key role in the socio-economic development of agricultural households. Since 1998, large-scale land certification programs aimed at strengthening the land property rights of agricultural households in Ethiopia have been implemented across regions to varying degrees. Using a three-period, large-scale nationally representative panel dataset from Ethiopia, this paper investigates the importance of access to secure land property right in the form of land certification for household take-up of agricultural development interventions that aim to improve household agricultural productivity and sustainable land use at a community level. We studied the take-up of agricultural extension packages and participation in community level sustainable land and water management programs as outcome variables. To account for potential endogeneity in the allocation of certificates and other confounding factors, we applied different panel data methods including instrumental variable approach. We find that access to secure property rights have a positive and significant effect on household take-up agricultural development interventions: agricultural extension packages and sustainable land and water management interventions. Additionally, we find that land certificates significantly predict household adoption of chemical fertilizers. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Nyckelord

Land property rights; Land certification; Agricultural extension programs; Development interventions; Ethiopia

Publicerad i

World Development
2021, Volym: 147, artikelnummer: 105626
Utgivare: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

SLU författare

• Adamie, Birhanu Addisu

  • Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG1 Ingen fattigdom
SDG2 Ingen hunger
SDG16 Fredliga och inkluderande samhällen


UKÄ forskningsämne

Nationalekonomi


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105626

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