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Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi's customary tenure systems (English)

Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders; (ii) fear of land loss, although not exclusively due to estates, is associated with a 12 percent productivity...
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Deininger,Klaus W.; Xia,Fang; Holden,Stein Terje.

Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi's customary tenure systems (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7943 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/266351484763758405

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