Rwanda’s Land Policy Reform: Self-Employment Perspectives from a Case Study of Kimonyi Sector | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
Fevereiro 2021
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
10.3390/land10020117
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© 2021 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article.

Rwanda’s Land Policy Reform promotes agri-business and encourages self-employment. This paper aims to analyze the situation from a self-employment perspective when dealing with expropriation risk in rural areas. In this study, we conducted a structured survey addressed to 63 domestic units, complemented by focus groups of 47 participants from Kimonyi Sector. The binary logistic regression analysis revealed that having job alternatives, men heading domestic units, literacy skills in English, and owning land lease certificates (p < 0.05) are positively and significantly related to awareness of land expropriation risk. The decision of the head of the domestic unit to practice the main activity under self-employment status is positively influenced by owning a land lease certificate, number of plots, and French skills, while skills in English and a domestic unit’s size have a positive and significant influence on involvement in a second activity as self-employed. Information on expropriation risk has no significant effect on self-employment. The domestic unit survey revealed that 34.9% of the heads of domestic units only have one job, 47.6% have at least two jobs in their everyday life, 12.7% have a minimum of three jobs, and 4.8% are inactive. The focus group synthesis exposed the limits to self-employment ability and facilities.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Mizero, Mireille
Maniriho, Aristide
Bashangwa Mpozi, Bosco
Karangwa, Antoine
Burny, Philippe
Lebailly, Philippe

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