The Impact of Land Conflict on Land Productivity: Evidence from Liberia

Akama Erick Maiko and Genesis Bhenda Kollie

Working Papers from African Economic Research Consortium

Abstract: This paper examines both the correlates of land conflict and the effects of this conflict on crop yields, farmers' investments in permanent trees and crops. The productivity effects of land conflict are estimated at the town-level considering the endogeneity of conflict. We use data from the Household Income Expenditure Survey (HIES) of Liberia and from the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) baseline survey for the same year. The main findings reveal that gender, distance from the farm to home or the road, soil quality, slope of the farmland, marital status, soil erosion, government extension services and age of the

Date: 2022-03
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