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Library Land Tenure Security, Land-Related Investments and Agricultural Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Efficiency or Equity? A Microeconomic Analysis Applied to the Case of Burkina Faso

Land Tenure Security, Land-Related Investments and Agricultural Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Efficiency or Equity? A Microeconomic Analysis Applied to the Case of Burkina Faso

Land Tenure Security, Land-Related Investments and Agricultural Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Efficiency or Equity? A Microeconomic Analysis Applied to the Case of Burkina Faso

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August 2018
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OSF_preprint:461CA-160-82D

In this article, we study the impact of both secure individual and mixed allocation of plots of land on the farming household propensity to invest in land as well as to improve the productivity of the soil. For that purpose, we resort to the World Bank LSMS-ISA database established in 2014 from a representative sample at the national level of 10,800 farming households in Burkina Faso. The empirical application favors the estimation of a multivariate Probit with random effects and of a translog model with household fixed effects. The results show that households which have got an individual land management on the one hand, and mixed management on the other have on average a greater tenure security effect on the performance of agricultural activities than the peasants who manage their land collectively. Consequently, it would be advisable to stress, strengthen and increasingly promote the protection of individual exploitations specifically.

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Stéphane Korsaga
Stéphane Korsaga

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