Nonconvex transaction costs and land rental market participation in Malawi

SE Tione, ST Holden - Land Economics, 2022 - le.uwpress.org
We assess how nonconvex transaction costs constrain access to and participation in the
land rental market by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The theory suggests a …

Transaction costs and land rental market participation in Malawi

SE Tione, ST Holden - 2019 - econstor.eu
We assess the extent of access and degree of participation by smallholder tenants in the
land rental market in Malawi. Our study is based on three rounds of nationally representative …

Participation in rural land rental markets in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Who benefits and by how much? Evidence from Malawi and Zambia

J Chamberlin, J Ricker‐Gilbert - American Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We use nationally representative household‐level panel survey data in two neighboring
countries in Southern Africa—Zambia and Malawi—to characterize the current status of rural …

Rural land rental markets in Southern Africa: trends, drivers, and impacts on household welfare in Malawi and Zambia

J Chamberlin, J Ricker-Gilbert - 2014 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
We use nationally representative survey data from two neighboring countries in Southern
Africa–Zambia and Malawi–to characterize the current status of rural land rental market …

Land rental markets: Experimental evidence from Kenya

M Acampora, L Casaburi, J Willis - 2022 - nber.org
Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa,
including on agricultural efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental …

What Is Driving Farmland Rental Prices In Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence From Malawi

J Ricker-Gilbert, N Mason, J Chamberlin - 2016 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Informal land markets, particularly land rental markets, are emerging rapidly in many parts of
sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Land rental markets have the potential to contribute to structural …

Tenants' land access in the rental market: evidence from northern Ethiopia

M Gebru, ST Holden, M Tilahun - Agricultural Economics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study is to investigate the allocation efficiency in the tenancy market, and
thereby the potential of the market to facilitate operational farm size adjustment that can help …

[PDF][PDF] Do Farm Land Rental Markets Really Promote Efficiency, Equity and Investment in Smallholder African Agriculture? Evidence from a Matched Tenant-Landlord …

J Ricker-Gilbert, RW Lunduka, JS Kanyamuka… - 2017 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
The growth of rural land rental markets is often taken as a virtuous component of an African
structural transformation process, by facilitating access to land by efficient but land …

What are the drivers of rural land rental markets in sub-Saharan Africa, and how do they impact household welfare? Evidence from Malawi and Zambia

J Chamberlin, JE Ricker-Gilbert - 2015 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
This article uses nationally representative panel survey data from Malawi and Zambia to
estimate the factors affecting a smallholder farm household's decision to participate in land …

Impacts of land rental markets on rural poverty in Kenya

S Jin, TS Jayne - 2011 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
This study uses panel data from 1,142 Kenya smallholder households over four survey
periods to examine the determinants of participation in land rental markets and to quantify …