Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia

The degree to which prevailing land tenure arrangements in sub-Saharan Africa constrain efficiency and agricultural productivity are still not determined. This paper examines the sources of economic efficiency (inefficiency) of alternative land tenure arrangements in Ethiopia using stochastic fronti...

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Autor principal: International Livestock Research Institute
Formato: Artículo preliminar
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Publicado: International Livestock Research Institute 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49798
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description The degree to which prevailing land tenure arrangements in sub-Saharan Africa constrain efficiency and agricultural productivity are still not determined. This paper examines the sources of economic efficiency (inefficiency) of alternative land tenure arrangements in Ethiopia using stochastic frontier production function. The results show that sharecropped and borrowed land are technically less efficient than owner-cultivated or fixed rental land due to restrictions imposed on them by landowners and the interactions of land market with other imperfect and absent input markets. Thus, a policy has to be drawn to facilitate more efficient transactions of land between farmers and to minimise inefficiencies associated with these tenure systems.
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spelling CGSpace497982025-11-04T14:13:28Z Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia International Livestock Research Institute natural resources The degree to which prevailing land tenure arrangements in sub-Saharan Africa constrain efficiency and agricultural productivity are still not determined. This paper examines the sources of economic efficiency (inefficiency) of alternative land tenure arrangements in Ethiopia using stochastic frontier production function. The results show that sharecropped and borrowed land are technically less efficient than owner-cultivated or fixed rental land due to restrictions imposed on them by landowners and the interactions of land market with other imperfect and absent input markets. Thus, a policy has to be drawn to facilitate more efficient transactions of land between farmers and to minimise inefficiencies associated with these tenure systems. 2002 2014-10-31T06:08:24Z 2014-10-31T06:08:24Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49798 en Open Access application/pdf International Livestock Research Institute
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Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia
title Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia
title_full Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia
title_fullStr Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia
title_short Evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in Ethiopia
title_sort evolution and technical efficiency of land tenure systems in ethiopia
topic natural resources
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49798
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