List of tables
List of figures, maps and boxes
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Land tenure reforms, poverty and natural resource management : conceptual framework / Stein Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, and Klaus Deininger
Land redistribution reforms
Land reforms, caste discrimination, and land market performance in Nepal / Jeetendra P. Aryal and Stein Holden
Does sharecropping affect productivity and long-term investment? : evidence from West Bengal's tenancy reforms / Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, and Vandana Yadav
Would small be beautiful in the South African land reform? / Henrik Wiig and Henning ien
The economic effects of land redistribution : the case of community-based rural land development project in Malawi / Franklin Simtowe, Mariapia Mendola, Julius Mangisoni, Hardwick Tchale, and Clement Nyirongo
Tenure security and transfer rights enhancing reforms
Welfare impacts of land certification in Tigray, Ethiopia / Stein Holden and Hosaena Ghebru
Access to land : market and non-market land transactions in rural Vietnam / Luu Duc Khai, Thomas Markussen, Simon McCoy, and Finn Tarp
Land tenure reforms, land market participation and the farm size productivity
Relationship in Uganda / Alex Tatwangire and Stein Holden
Forest tenure reforms
Forest use rights and community management in inner Tarai region of Nepal / Nayayan Poudel, Nobuhiko Fuwa, and Keijiro Otsuka
Tenure and forest management in India : impacts on equity and efficiency of van Panchayats in Uttarakhand / Ashokankur Datta and Gunnar Kohlin
Tenure security and investment effects of forest tenure reform in China / Stein Holden, Yuanyuan Yi, Xuemei Jiang and Jintao Xu
Community forest management and tree planting on farms in Kakamega, Kenya / Maurice Juma Ogada, Wilfred Nyangena, and Geophrey Sikei
Impact of land certification on tree growing on private plots of rural households : evidence from Ethiopia / Alemu Mekonnen, Hosaena Ghebru, Stein Holden, and Menale Kassie
New challenges and the future of land tenure reform
The rise of large farms in land abundant countries : do they have a future? / Derek Byerlee, and Klaus Deininger
Using the land governance assessment framework to help secure rural land rights : framework and experience thus far / Klaus Deininger
Conclusions / Stein Holden, Keijiro Otsuka, and Klaus Deininger
Appendices.