TY - JOUR
T1 - Relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity
T2 - Exploring the effect of land registration
AU - Singirankabo, Uwacu Alban
AU - Ertsen, Maurits Willem
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity. Using 85 studies, the paper focuses on the regular claim that land registration's facilitation of formal documents-based land dealings leads to investment in a more productive agriculture. The paper shows that this claim is problematic for three reasons. First, most studies offer no empirical evidence to support the claim on the above-mentioned effect. Second, there are suggestions that land registration can actually threaten 'de facto' tenure security or even lead to insecurity of tenure. Third, the gendered realization of land registration and security may lead to uneven distribution of costs and benefits, but these effects are often ignored. Next to suggesting the importance of land information updating and the efficiency of local land management institutions, this paper also finds that more research with a combined locally-set approach is needed to better understand any relation(s) between land tenure security and agricultural productivity.
AB - This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity. Using 85 studies, the paper focuses on the regular claim that land registration's facilitation of formal documents-based land dealings leads to investment in a more productive agriculture. The paper shows that this claim is problematic for three reasons. First, most studies offer no empirical evidence to support the claim on the above-mentioned effect. Second, there are suggestions that land registration can actually threaten 'de facto' tenure security or even lead to insecurity of tenure. Third, the gendered realization of land registration and security may lead to uneven distribution of costs and benefits, but these effects are often ignored. Next to suggesting the importance of land information updating and the efficiency of local land management institutions, this paper also finds that more research with a combined locally-set approach is needed to better understand any relation(s) between land tenure security and agricultural productivity.
KW - Agricultural productivity
KW - Land registration
KW - Land tenure security
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085610931&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/LAND9050138
DO - 10.3390/LAND9050138
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85085610931
VL - 9
JO - Land
JF - Land
SN - 2073-445X
IS - 5
M1 - 138
ER -