Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Markets
Evidence from Ethiopia
Resource information
Date of publication
March 2009
Resource Language
Pages
40
License of the resource
Copyright details
© 2009 Environment for Development. All rights reserved. No portion of this paper may be reproduced without permission
of the authors.
of the authors.
While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure land rights has kindled renewed interest, in view of increased demand for land, a range of individual and communal rights available under new laws, and reduced costs from combining information technology with participatory methods. We used a difference-in-difference approach to assess the effects of a low-cost land registration program in Ethiopia, which covered some 20 million plots over five years, on investment. Despite policy constraints, the program increased land-related investment and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of implementation.
