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.

An italian estate, 900–1200

Abstract: The great landowners rarely exploited their lands directly: instead of the labour services and miscellaneous dues of the past they drew rents, increasingly money rents, from a dependent peasantry whose rights in the land varied from hereditary tenure to a mere temporary leasehold, and whose status had long ceased to conform to the older categories of free, 'half-free', and servile. As in the north too the disintegration of the great estate was accompanied by the disintegration of the traditional unit of 'manorial' tenancy, the mansus. As a result the Italian lord was soon a mere receiver of rents, usually fixed rents, which might be added to the valuable revenues of seigneurial authority or the tithes and other dues pertaining to a church. It shows that by the late tenth century these estates, composed in large part of scattered gifts from small freemen, included only a small demesne, which was increasingly reduced by perpetual grants to members of the local nobility.

On Sharecropping: A review of modern theories

Abstract: On Sharecropping: A Review of Modern Theories (di Pasquale Commendatore) - ABSTRACT: In this paper, we provide an analytical treatment and comparison of the three principal pure forms of land tenure: owner-occupancy, fixed-rent tenancy and share-rent tenancy or sharecropping. The analysis is of a static nature following the standard treatment of this topic in the literature. We provide also a review of the debate on the efficiency of sharecropping. In doing so, we look more attentively at some crucial aspects of land tenancy that have emerged in recent contributions and that have been overlooked in previous assessments of share-rent tenancy, such as the role of conventions, the existence of imperfect credit markets and the consequent relevance of the timing of payments. A proper treatment of these aspects requires the framing of the existing analyses in a dynamic context.

Can the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? : evidence from northern Ethiopia

Abstract: The paper utilizes household panel data to investigate whether the land rental market can facilitate improved access to land for land-poor tenant households over time and thereby facilitate expansion of their farming activity. The paper utilizes data 8-17 years after land certification to assess the long-term effect of land certification on the allocative efficiency in the land rental market in areas where land certification stimulated land renting in the early years after certification. The paper uses three rounds of balanced panel data collected from 320 smallholder farmers in 2006, 2010 & 2015 from rural Tigrai, northern Ethiopia. Random effects dynamic probit and Tobit models were used to assess factors that may explain access, participation, and intensity of participation on the tenant side of the tenancy market. Tenants’ access to land was found to be severely constrained. Previous access and participation had strong positive effect on access and participation and intensity of participation in later periods. Non-convex transaction costs and entry barriers, therefore, appear as severe constraints towards the land rental market facilitating smallholder commercialization through tenancy access to land. More active land rental market coordination interventions are needed to boost the land rental market as a vehicle for facilitation of smallholder commercialization.