LAND ACCESS, TENURE SECURITY AND THE FATE OF RURAL YOUTH IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF MOZAMBIQUE
HOSAENA GHEBRU, HELDER ZAVALE
International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique
Unlike the existing literature that focuses on land access, this paper assess whether land access and tenure security have effect on youth employment and migration choices. We consider four indicators: youth land
acquisition and youth expected inheritance of land for land access and private risk and public risk for tenure security. This paper hypothesizes that access to land and tenure security are important factor that
drive youth in the rural areas to look for non-agricultural livelihood strategies. We employed data gathered
in Central and Northern Mozambique with a sample of 3,510 households. Our sample consists of 5,750 youth coming from 2,890 sampled households. Our findings suggest that both land access and tenure secure
are positively associated with employment in the agricultural sector. With respect to association between
land access and migration, we found mixed results. Furthermore, tenure security is negatively correlated
with permanent migration, but positively correlated with temporary migration.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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