Using household- and plot-level data from Ghana, analyzes the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security. Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on plots acquired via inheritance than on land allocated by traditional authorities. But collectively, perceived tenure security lessens in communities with more active land markets and economic vibrancy. Migrant households and women in polygamous households feel less secure about their tenure, while farmers with political connections are more confident about their tenure security.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesjuillet, 2016Ghana, Afrique
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesnovembre, 2011Afrique
Includes key concepts for understanding land rights; land tenure and women’s property rights in Uganda; land acquisition in Uganda; who owns the land? Perspectives from the local level. Analyses how different ways of defining landownership provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of landownership and rights. Although many households report that husbands and wives jointly own the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, especially titles, and women have fewer land rights.
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsArticles et Livresdécembre, 2003
The previous sections have highlighted the importance of assets as a determinant of bargaining power within marriage. Both formal and informal institutions underlie asset accumulation and provide the basis for property rights. When women face social and legal restrictions in acquiring certain forms of assets, such as land, they may resort to accumulating other “assets” and investing in other forms of capital.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2013Asie méridionale, Asie orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Amérique du Sud, Afrique, Asie, Amérique septentrionale, Brésil, Chine, Inde, États-Unis d'Amérique
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2013Asie méridionale, Asie orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Amérique du Sud, Afrique, Asie, Amérique septentrionale, Brésil, Chine, Inde, États-Unis d'Amérique
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra
Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2001Afrique occidentale, Asia du sud-est, Afrique, Asie, Indonésie, GhanaThis research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective? As part of a larger multicountry study on property rights to land and trees, this study focuses on the evolution from customary land tenure with communal ownership toward individualized rights, and how this shift affects women and men differently.This study’s key contribution is its multilevel econometric analysis of efficiency and equity issues.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2013Afrique orientale, Afrique occidentale, Afrique australe, Afrique centrale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Asie méridionale, Afrique, Asie
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2013Asie méridionale, Asie orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Amérique du Sud, Afrique, Asie, Amérique septentrionale, Brésil, Chine, Inde, États-Unis d'Amérique
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsArticles et Livresdécembre, 2013Asie méridionale, Asie orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Amérique du Sud, Afrique, Amérique septentrionale, Brésil, Chine, Inde, États-Unis d'Amérique, Europe
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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