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The paper utilizes household panel data to investigate whether the land rental market can facilitate improved access to land for land-poor tenant households over time and thereby facilitate expansion of their farming activity.
Land rental markets can potentially improve the access to land for land-poor households that possess complementary resources that can enable them to utilize land efficiently.
Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participation as responses to risk in rural China.
Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households’ participation in the rural land rental market.
There is a common view and belief that women are the ones that do the farming in Africa while the men do not work much.
With land being the main source of income for many people in the developing world, security of access or ownership rights is imperative to the alleviation of rural povety.
This paper looks at the role of market imperfections in explaining leasing behaviour of households using sample data from the Highlands of Eritrea.
Previous studies of land contracts have focused more on efficiency questions than on determinants of access to land and dynamics of access.