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LAND USE POLICY
卷 118, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106122
关键词
Land tenure security; Agriculture production; Smallholder farmers; Rwanda
资金
- Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUF-FIC)
This article empirically assesses the relations between land tenure security and smallholder farms' crop production in Rwanda based on a data set from four research sites over the course of three agricultural years. The findings indicate that there is no statistical correlation between land tenure security and crop harvests. Factors related to the ongoing crop intensification program contribute more to the increase in small farm harvests. Lower land tenure security does not affect farmers' satisfaction with the crop program.
On the basis of a data set from four research sites over the course of three agricultural years (2006/2007, 2012/2013, 2016/2017), this article empirically assesses the relations between land tenure security and smallholder farms' crop production in Rwanda. We show that the general assumption that secure land tenure improves farm level harvests, is not found for smallholder farms in Rwanda. We defined a farmland tenure security index based on plausible threats as conveyed by smallholder farmers at each research site. Our findings indicate that the harvest of main crops did neither statistically correlate with this index, nor show differences from the mean at all research sites. Instead, factors mainly related to the ongoing crop intensification program, though threatening tenure security, contributed to the increase of small farm harvests. Lower land tenure security did not affect farmers satisfaction of the crop program, most of them claiming that in the end what matters most is that their harvests continue to increase. Therefore, in Rwanda, a new wave of agriculture strategizing contributes to increasing small farms' harvest of prioritized crops and decreasing farm land tenure security simultaneously.
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