Delving into the relationship between land tenure and food security using the case of Ayeyarwaddy, Myanmar ppt
Alvarado, Gina; Cathrin Anderson; Vinod Dharmarajan; Elizabeth Louis; Tetyana Zelenska
Landesa
Many development partners and governments that promote land rights do so under the assumption that land rights increase households’ ability to enjoy greater food security. Much of the economic literature popular among development partners suggests that land rights improve land tenure security through increasing the land holder’s ability to make decisions to improve the productivity of their farms, increasing their ability to be food secure. While some studies have shown that differences in tenure security have positive impacts on some types of investment (e.g. soil conservation and adoption of stone terraces in Ethiopian studies), others have found no impact or have found that access to extension services, presence of irrigation and credit seem more important to increasing investment than land tenure. A recent systematic review by Lawry and colleagues (Lawry et al 2017) on the effects of land tenure interventions on agricultural productivity, income, investment and other relevant outcomes found mixed results. Some of the 20 quantitative studies reviewed suggest that land tenure is related to productivity and income gains from land tenure recognition in some regions. However, qualitative studies suggest otherwise (Lawry et al 2017).
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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