PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Murken, Lisa
AU  - Mager, Gregor
AU  - Laudien, Rahel
AU  - Kraehnert, Kati
AU  - Gornott, Christoph
TI  - The Impact of Weather Risk on Tenure Security
AID  - 10.3368/le.100.4.101422-0079R1
DP  - 2024 Apr 22
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 101422-0079R1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/04/15/le.100.4.101422-0079R1.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2024/04/15/le.100.4.101422-0079R1.full
AB  - We analyze if exposure to weather risk affects the tenure security of smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania. Drawing on a household panel survey with three waves and high-resolution weather data, our identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in precipitation across time and space. Results from household fixed effects estimations show that exposure to weather risk significantly lowers farmers’ perceived tenure security, while it increases land conflicts. Moreover, weather risk influences the likelihood that farmers acquire land certificates. These findings suggest that both land formalization and land dispute resolution mechanisms are needed to cushion the impacts of weather risk.