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The Impact of Land Certification on Tree Growing on Private Plots of Rural Households: Evidence from Ethiopia

In: Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa

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  • Alemu Mekonnen

    (Addis Ababa University)

  • Hosaena Ghebru

    (International Food Policy Research Institute)

  • Stein T. Holden
  • Menale Kassie

    (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)

Abstract

Many environmental problems such as soil degradation and forest depletion can be characterized as being a result of incomplete, inconsistent, or non-enforced property rights (Bromley and Cernea, 1989). It has been long observed that easily transferable and secure property rights have been identified as a key element to bring about higher levels of investment and access to credit, to facilitate the reallocation of production factors to maximize allocative efficiency in resource use, and to allow economic diversification and growth (Deininger and Jin, 2006; Place, 2009).

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  • Alemu Mekonnen & Hosaena Ghebru & Stein T. Holden & Menale Kassie, 2013. "The Impact of Land Certification on Tree Growing on Private Plots of Rural Households: Evidence from Ethiopia," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stein T. Holden & Keijiro Otsuka & Klaus Deininger (ed.), Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa, chapter 13, pages 308-330, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-34381-9_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137343819_13
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    Keywords

    Rural Household; Land Tenure; Tobit Model; Communal Land; Indigenous Tree;
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    JEL classification:

    • K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
    • Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry
    • Q24 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Land
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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