PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mueller, Valerie
AU  - Quisumbing, Agnes
AU  - Lee, Hak Lim
AU  - Droppelmann, Klaus
TI  - Resettlement for Food Security’s Sake: Insights from a Malawi Land Reform Project
AID  - 10.3368/le.90.2.222
DP  - 2014 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 222--236
VI  - 90
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/90/2/222.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/90/2/222.full
SO  - Land Econ2014 May 01; 90
AB  - In several African contexts, households are unable to enhance agricultural production due to land constraints. Few governments have explored the use of resettlement to alleviate land scarcity and facilitate rural-to-rural migration. We examine whether a resettlement project in southern Malawi improved food security in the long term. Our findings indicate resettled households achieved greater long-term food security, owing to additional land coupled with a more diversified crop portfolio. We also find the formalization of property rights improved land security for male and female household heads, but resettlement jeopardized the land security of women in maleheaded households. (JEL Q15, Q18)