Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia

Hosaena H. Ghebru and Stein Holden ()

No 59, ESSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and, thus, food security in this food-deficit region. Results show that land certification appears to have contributed to enhanced calorie availability (calorie intake), and more so for female-headed households, either through enhanced land rental market participation or increased investment and productivity on owner-operated land. Results also show that members of households that accessed additional land through the land rental market had a significantly higher body mass index.

Keywords: food security; land tenure; gender; women; land registration; nutritional status; households; reforms; household surveys; tenure security; land rent; Ethiopia; Eastern Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Links between Tenure Security and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia (2019)
Working Paper: Links between tenure security and food security: Evidence from Ethiopia (2013)
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