Network Effects and Land Redistribution: A Natural Experiment in Zimbabwe

Tara McIndoe-Calder ()

The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series from IIIS

Abstract: The paper investigates whether positive network effects may have existed between large-scale commercial farmers and small-scale communal farmers prior to the recent land redistribution in Zimbabwe. A difference-in-difference approach is used where measurement is carried out using several data sources including farm level, geographic and survey information for cotton farmers in Mashonaland Central. It tests whether the removal of large-scale farmers has resulted in a decline in productivity for those small-scale farmers close to redistributed land as compared to those located at greater distances from large-scale/commercial farms. A significant negative productivity effect is found in addition to a country-wide negative redistribution effect. The latter is most likely due to wider economic and political instability over the last 10 years.

Keywords: Land redistribution; network effects; cotton farming; agricultural productivity; Zimbabwe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N57 O17 O33 Q12 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2011-02
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