TY - JOUR T1 - Land Use, Production Growth, and the Institutional Environment of Smallholders: Evidence from Burkinabè Cotton Farmers JF - Land Economics JO - Land Econ SP - 161 LP - 182 DO - 10.3368/le.87.1.161 VL - 87 IS - 1 AU - Jonathan Kaminski AU - Alban Thomas Y1 - 2011/02/01 UR - http://le.uwpress.org/content/87/1/161.abstract N2 - The cotton boom in Burkina Faso consisted of a growth in cotton land shares together with an overall increase in total cultivated land. This paper examines the impact of institutional changes in the cotton sector on the evolution of smallholders’ land-use decisions. The empirical analysis is supported by a structural model that takes into account the specific institutional features of the Burkinabè cotton sector and builds upon household-level data collected in rural Burkina Faso. We attribute most of the change in land use to the newly established institutional arrangements between producers and stakeholders, mechanization, and slackening of the food-security constraint. (JEL O13, Q15) ER -