Changes in Land Tenure and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa

Keijiro Otsuka () and Frank Place

No wp-2014-051, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Due to increasing population pressure on limited cultivable land in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), farm size has been shrinking, fallow periods have been shortened, and soil fertility has been declining. In accordance with the Boserupian evolutionary theory and the Hayami-Ruttan induced innovation theory, however, investments in land improvements have taken place, which leads to strengthened individual land rights and the intensification of farming systems in many other parts of SSA.

Keywords: Agriculture; Environmental economics; Land tenure; Land use; Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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