Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa: Assessing Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Land Tenure Reforms, Poverty and Natural Resource Management: Conceptual Framework....Pages 1-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Land Reforms, Caste Discrimination and Land Market Performance in Nepal....Pages 29-53
Does Sharecropping Affect Long-term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms....Pages 54-79
Would Small be More Beautiful in the South African Land Reform?....Pages 80-104
The Economic Effects of Land Redistribution: The Case of a Community-Based Rural Land Development Project in Malawi....Pages 105-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Welfare Impacts of Land Certification in Tigray, Ethiopia....Pages 137-161
Access to Land: Market and Non-Market Land Transactions in Rural Vietnam....Pages 162-186
Land Tenure Reforms, Land Market Participation and the Farm Size — Productivity Relationship in Uganda....Pages 187-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
From Deforestation to Reforestation: The Evolution of Community Forest Management in the Dang District of Nepal....Pages 213-232
Tenure and Forest Management in India: Impacts on Equity and Efficiency of Van Panchayats in Uttarakhand....Pages 233-255
Tenure Security and Investment Effects of Forest Tenure Reform in China....Pages 256-282
Community Forest Management and Tree Planting on Farms in Kakamega, Kenya....Pages 283-307
The Impact of Land Certification on Tree Growing on Private Plots of Rural Households: Evidence from Ethiopia....Pages 308-330
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
The Rise of Large Farms in Land-Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future?....Pages 333-353
Using the Land Governance Assessment Framework to Help Secure Rural Land Rights: Framework and Experience Thus Far....Pages 354-379
Conclusions....Pages 380-395
Back Matter....Pages 397-405