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An Act to provide for the management and administration of land in villages, and for related matters.
An Act to provide for the management and administration of land in villages, and for related matters.
What have we learned about land markets in South Asia about land reform, land fragmentation, sharecropping, security of tenure, farm size, land rights, transaction costs, bargaining power, policy distortions, and market imperfections (including those associated with gender)?Faruqee and Carey review the literature on land markets in South Asia to clarify what's known and to highlight unresolved issues. They report that: We have a good understanding of why sharecropping persists and why it can be superior to other standard agricultural contracts.
Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land. The complexity of land revenue administration in Orissa is partly the legacy of distinctly different systems, which produced more or less complete and accurate land records.
Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.
This study examined the socio-economic consequences of land registration In
Tongaren Division, Bungoma District. It was designed to assess how land registration has
impacted on food security, income, gender parity in the ownership of land and, on
kinship ties and social relations. The study was hinged on the premise that land tenure
reform program in Tongaren division has not lived up to its promises. It was justified to
carry out this study on the grounds that land is the matrix of life of many people in this
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