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   Rural land rental markets in Southern Africa: trends, drivers, and impacts on household welfare in Malawi and Zambia

   Trends, drivers, and impacts on household welfare in Malawi and Zambia

   Publication évaluée par des pairs

   juillet, 2014

   Malawi, Zambie

   Droits fonciers collectifs

   Terre et investissements

   régime coutumier

   gestion foncière

   marché foncier

   We use nationally representative survey data from two neighboring countries in Southern Africa – Zambia and Malawi – to characterize the current status of rural land rental market participation by smallholder farmers. We find that rural rental market participation is strongly conditioned by land scarcity, and thus is more advanced in Malawi than in lower-density Zambia. In both countries, we find evidence that rental markets contribute to efficiency gains within the smallholder sector by facilitating the transfer of land from less-able to more-able producers.

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   Do the land-poor gain from agricultural investments? Empirical evidence from Zambia using panel data

   Rapports et recherches

   août, 2015

   Zambie

   Droits fonciers collectifs

   Terre et sécurité alimentaire

   Terre et investissements

   Conflits liés à la terre

   droit agricole et rural

   droit foncier coutumier

   régime coutumier

   In the context of the global land rush, some portray large-scale land acquisitions as a potent threat to the livelihoods of already marginalized rural farming households in Africa. In order to avoid the potential pitfall of studying a particular project that may well have atypical effects, this paper systematically investigates the impact on commercial farm wage incomes for rural smallholder households of all pledged investments in the agricultural sector in Zambia between 1994 and 2007.