Publication: Gendered Incidence and Impact of Tenure Insecurity on Agricultural Performance in Malawi’s Customary Tenure System

Thumbnail Image
Files in English
English PDF (432.43 KB)
165 downloads
Date
2019
ISSN
0022-0388
Published
2019
Author(s)
Xia, Fang
Holden, Stein
Abstract
Malawi’s recent passage of Land Acts provide an opportunity to clarify different aspects of the country’s land tenure in an integrated way. To assess whether doing so might be economically justified, we explore incidence and impact of tenure insecurity among smallholders. Insecurity is not only widespread with 22 per cent of land users being concerned about losing their land but is also associated with a productivity loss of 12 per cent for female operators, equivalent to US$ 14 million per year at the national level, enough to pay for a nation-wide tenure regularization program in two to three years.
Link to Data Set
Report Series
Other publications in this report series
Journal
Journal Volume
Journal Issue
Associated URLs
Citations