Journal
LAND USE POLICY
Volume 81, Issue -, Pages 878-888Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.04.023
Keywords
Contract farming; Property rights; Subjective well-being; Large-scale land acquisition; Ghana
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- German Agency for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ)
- Ghana Market-oriented Agriculture Programme (MOAP), a joint programme of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Ministry of Food and Agriculture of the Republic of Ghana
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Recently, large-scale land acquisition has increased dramatically in the developing world. The question whether land deals can benefit both the local population and the investor is therefore high on the international agenda. Contract farming is discussed as a possible solution but studies identifying the causal effects are rare. Using data from a quasi-natural experiment in contract allocation, we compare the subjective well-being of outgrowers and independent farmers in the sphere of the biggest palm oil producer in Ghana. We identify a positive causal effect of the outgrower scheme which increases subjective well-being by 1.5 points on a scale of 0-10. We find a substitutive relationship between having an outgrower contract and having property rights, and thus we argue that by increasing security a contract increases well-being, as secure rights to land matter substantially for the overall life satisfaction of non-contract but not of contract farmers.
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