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Land tenure security and adoption of modern rice technology in Odisha, Eastern India: Revisiting Besley’s hypothesis
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In this article, a simple portfolio model has been developed which incorporates three different specifications of tenurial status that define land tenure security, and empirical evidences support Besley's'security effect' hypothesis that secured land tenure enhances adoption of improved technology.About:
This article is published in Land Use Policy.The article was published on 2018-11-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Land tenure & Leasehold estate.read more
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Social capital, land tenure and the adoption of green control techniques by family farms: Evidence from Shandong and Henan Provinces of China
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper applied endogenous switching probit models to a dataset of 443 family farms in Shandong and Henan Provinces to investigate the influence of social capital and land tenure security on family farms' adoption of green control techniques (GCTs).
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Adoption and Impact of Modern Rice Varieties on Poverty in Eastern India
Richard Kwasi Bannor,Richard Kwasi Bannor,Gupta Amarnath Krishna Kumar,Helena Oppong-Kyeremeh,Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Cragg's Double Hurdle model to model the determinants of adoption and intensity of adoption of modern varieties of rice and impact on poverty in Odisha, India.
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Biofuels and the Hazards of Land Grabbing: Tenure (In) Security and Indigenous Farmers’ Investment Decisions in Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of the current mode of communal land acquisition for Jatropha cultivation in Ghana on the security of indigenous farmers' land rights and their decisions to invest in their farms.
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Relations between Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity: Exploring the Effect of Land Registration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the scholarly literature discussing the effect of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity and find that most studies offer no empirical evidence to support the claim on the above-mentioned effect.
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Land tenure stability and adoption intensity of sustainable agricultural practices in banana production in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the impact of land tenure stability on farmers' adoption intensity of sustainable agricultural practices in agricultural production, using the data collected from banana farmers in China, and found that farmers who cultivate higher proportion of their own farmland are more inclined to use SAPs in banana production.
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Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the use of truncated distributions in the context of unions and wages, and some results on truncated distribution Bibliography Index and references therein.
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The Uses of Tobit Analysis
TL;DR: The authors showed that the coefficients obtained from using Tobit-here called "beta" coefficients -provide more information than is commonly realized and showed that this decomposition can be quantified in rather useful and insightful ways.
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Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana
TL;DR: In this article, the link between property rights and investment incentives was examined, and three theoretical arguments based on security of tenure, using land as collateral and obtaining gains from trade were developed.
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Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the effect of agricultural tenancy laws offering security of tenure to tenants and regulating the share of output that is paid as rent on farm productivity, showing that the net impact of tenancy reform is a combination of two effects: a bargaining power effect and a security-of-tenure effect.