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Displaying 296 - 300 of 447Land deals in Africa: pioneers and speculators
Much African land currently has low productivity and has attracted investors purchasing (or leasing) land as a speculative option on higher future prices or productivity. If land deals are to be beneficial they need to induce productivity enhancing investments. Some of these will be publicly provided (infrastructure, agronomic knowledge), and some can only be provided by ‘pioneer’ investors who discover what works and who create demonstration effects.
Effects of land tenure systems on resource-use productivity and efficiency in Ghana’s rice industry
This study examines the effects of land tenure systems on resource-use productivity and efficiency in the Upper East region of Ghana with data drawn from the Ghana Agricultural Production Survey. A stochastic frontier model is employed to analyse resource-use productivity and efficiency of the rice farms. The study establishes that rice farms under the various land tenure systems are technically inefficient. Technical efficiency for the pooled sample was 61.80%.
The gender implications of large-scale land deals:
This paper strives to introduce a discussion of the gender dimensions into the growing debate on large-scale land deals.
The agricultural land market: situation and outlook
The macroeconomic conditions. The current conditions for the agricultural land trading in Poland. The principles for management of agricultural land owned by the State Treasury. The agricultural land buy/sell transactions. The prices of agricultural land. The lease of agricultural land. The sale of agricultural land for the benefit of foreigners. The problems of the agricultural land market in the European countries. agricultural land, land trading, Poland, buy transactions, sell transactions, prices, lease, European countries, Land Economics/Use,
LAND TENURE AND SOCIOECONOMIC INTERACTIONS
The study analyzed the determinants of land tenure insecurity in Uganda using survey data collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) during the Policies for Improved Land Management Project in Uganda, 1999-2001. The survey included a sample of 1322 farm households randomly selected and interviewed using a formal questionnaire.