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  1. Library Resource
    Revista Estudos Iberoamericanos
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2016
    Africa, Sao Tome and Principe

    O artigo proposto para o dossiê apresenta reflexões sobre aspectos da história agrícola do país no momento da independência e no pós-independência. A perspectiva escolhida apresentou-se como pertinente para refletir sobre a política do país durante as décadas que seguiram a Independência.

  2. Library Resource
    January, 2002
    South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Those who led southern African states to independence promised to redress the inequalities of settler colonialism by returning the land to the people. A generation later the rural poor are still waiting. Many lack access and full rights to agricultural land and, as developments in Zimbabwe and South Africa show, they are getting angry. Where did post-independence land reform policy go wrong?

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2007
    Ethiopia, Africa

    Although a large theoretical literature discusses the possible inefficiency of sharecropping contracts, the empirical evidence on this phenomenon has been ambiguous at best. Household-level fixed-effect estimates from about 8,500 plots operated by households that own and sharecrop land in the Ethiopian highlands provide support for the hypothesis of Marshallian inefficiency. At the same time, a factor adjustment model suggests that the extent to which rental markets allow households to attain their desired operational holding size is extremely limited.

  4. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Tanzania

    In 2006, the government approved a
    national livestock policy based on the premise that the
    livestock industry has an important role to play in building
    a strong national economy and in the process, reducing
    inequalities among Tanzanians by increasing their incomes
    and employment opportunities. This report presents an
    analysis of rural livelihoods in Tanzania, with particular
    emphasis on the livestock sub-sector, smallholder

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Malawi

    This paper contributes to the
    long-standing debate on the merits of decentralized
    beneficiary targeting in the administration of development
    programs, focusing on the large-scale Malawi Farm Input
    Subsidy Program. Nationally-representative household survey
    data are used to systematically analyze the decentralized
    targeting performance of the program during the 2009-2010
    agricultural season. The analysis begins with a standard

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Malawi

    This paper uses a rural household survey
    dataset collected in 2006 and 2008 to investigate the impact
    of a market-based land resettlement project in southern
    Malawi. The program provided a conditional cash and land
    transfer to poor families to relocate to larger plots of
    farm land. The average treatment effect of the program is
    estimated using a difference-in-difference matching
    technique based on propensity score matching; qualitative

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Over the coming decades, land policy and
    administration, for urban as well as rural areas, will be
    critical for Ethiopia's development. The vast majority
    of people making up the Federal Democratic Republic of
    Ethiopia's (FDRE) predominantly agricultural economy
    live in rural areas. Finally, land policies and
    administration can contribute significantly to the
    objectives of promoting gender equality and protecting

  8. Library Resource
    July, 2015
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    While scholars agree on the importance
    of land rental markets for structural transformation in
    rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their
    operation, including potential obstacles to their improved
    functioning, remains limited. This study uses
    household-level data from six countries to start filling
    this gap and derive substantive as well as methodological
    lessons. The paper finds that rental markets transfer land

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