Leasehold estate

About: Leasehold estate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1589 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21480 citations. The topic is also known as: leasehold & tenancy.

Land Tenure System and Agricultural Productivity in a Selected Area of Bangladesh

Abstract: The relative efficiency of farming under tenancy systems in Bangladesh was measured in this study. Thirty cash tenants and 30 share tenants were randomly selected for data collection through field survey method from Narayanpur and Bhabokhali villages under Sadar upazila of Mymensingh district. The functional analysis of the study was based on Boro rice. The land tenancy situation in rural Bangladesh was explored in this study with a reasonable high incidence of owners who cultivate their own land in comparison to owner-cum-tenants and tenants. A number of tenurial arrangements including sharing agreements were also revealed in the study villages. Share tenant farmers earned significantly lower net return (Tk. 19,252.18) than the cash tenant farmers (Tk. 22,815.89) from Boro rice production. However, Boro rice production was profitable from the viewpoint of both tenant operators. Finally, the study tested and confirmed that all the explanatory variables (key production inputs) included in the Cobb- Douglas revenue type production function model were important for explaining the variations in gross returns under both tenancy arrangements. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/pa.v22i1-2.16479 Progress. Agric. 22(1 & 2): 181-192, 2011

Reconciliation or exclusion? Integrating indigenous and non-indigenous land management concepts for Australia's Native Title era. by Elspeth Young

Abstract: tag=1 data=Reconciliation or exclusion? Integrating indigenous and non-indigenous land management concepts for Australia's Native Title era. by Elspeth Young tag=2 data=Young, Elspeth tag=3 data=Asia Pacific Viewpoint tag=4 data=40 tag=5 data=2 tag=6 data=August 1999 tag=7 data=159-171. tag=8 data=ABORIGINAL LAND CLAIMS tag=9 data=INDIGENOUS LAND OWNERSHIP%LAND MANAGEMENT%AUSTRALIA%COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT%ASIA PACIFIC%MABO%WIK%PAPUA NEW GUINEA%CENTRAL AUSTRALIA%ULURU KATA TJUTA%KAKADU NATIONAL PARKS%YALPIRAKINU[MT ALLAN]%TANAMI DESERT%ABORIGINAL LAND FUND COMMISSION%ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS [NT] ACT%ARRUNGE%PULARDI%YUENDUMU%GARDEN BORE%RUGENDYKE%CENTRAL LAND COUNCIL%CSIRO%ABORIGINAL FREEHOLD TITLE tag=10 data=The 'paper argues that the adaptations of land use practised by indigenous people, who have converted their land tenure from pastoral leasehold to Aboriginal freehold land, suggest that such reconcilation is possible and practical.s a bibliography. tag=13 data=V/F

Privatisation of Biodiversity: Who Can Sell Ecosystem Services?

Abstract: A payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme is a mechanism whereby payments are provided in exchange for the management of land to maintain or enhance the health of the ecosystem, thereby providing benefits for the public or specific beneficiaries, e.g. carbon storage or control of water resources. Such payments can take the form of flat-rate subsidies or individually negotiated contracts to ensure that greater effectiveness can be achieved. This mechanism has been used in many parts of the world with varying degrees of success and is now increasingly being considered in the United Kingdom (UK) as one way of conserving biodiversity. There are benefits to this approach, but also challenges that must be faced when applying this mechanism. The main aim of this article is to present some of the challenges to be met if the use of PES is to be expanded. Specifically, this article examines whether the benefits of PES schemes should accrue to the owner or occupier of land, taking into account the endless variety of tenancy agreements and other interests in land, including the particular problems of common land in England and Wales and crofting in Scotland. By analysing the literature on the schemes in operation abroad and the UK examples and how they address these property rights issues it is possible to provide the basis for the design choices to be made if PES schemes are to play a bigger role in UK conservation law. Given the need to secure services over a prolonged period if they are to deliver real benefits, the article argues for the need to devise appropriate legal safeguards that reflect the different ownership and occupation interests, that can guarantee the continuing provision of services despite changes in ownership and occupation, but that are flexible enough to cope with the dynamic nature of both the environment and our demands on it.

Caste Discrimination, Land Reforms and Land Market Performance in Nepal

Abstract: This paper assesses the implications of caste discrimination and past land reforms on the land rental market performance, land productivity and land use intensity in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the so-called “untouchables”. Dalits faced religious, occupational and even, territorial discrimination. The study uses data from western Nepal. The low-caste households remain poorer than other households, have significantly smaller land endowments, and have poorer access to off-farm employment. They access additional land through the land rental market but the past “Land-to-the-tiller” policies have had the unintended effect of reducing their land access even though they have significantly higher land productivity than high-caste households. Many high-caste households prefer to rent out their land to other (less productive) high-caste households out of fear of losing their land if they rent it out to low-caste households. Imperfections in land and labor markets contribute to enhance the inverse farm size-productivity relationship. A new type of tenure reform is needed that enhances tenure security and land redistribution through voluntary land market transactions