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.

Farmland ownership and tenure in Iowa, 1982-1997: a fifteen year perspective

Abstract: The 1997 Farmland Ownership and Tenure study focuses on aspects of farmland ownership and tenancy in Iowa and compares 1997 data with trends from similar studies conducted in 1982 and 1992. Agricultural landholding types considered in the study include sole ownership, joint tenancy(husband and wife only), co-ownership(other joint ownership and tenants in common), partnership (including general, limited and limited liability partnership), trusts, estates,corporations, and limited liability companies. Demographics of landowners are included in the study and encompass age, gender, education, occupation, marital status, and residency. Acquisition, anticipated transfer, and management of farmland were also analyzed. A major area of emphasis concerned tenancy trends: landowner and tenant decision making, and the demographics of owners leasing or renting farmland.;Farmland participation in federal government conservation programs is commented on, but not looked at in great detail. Also, other limited interests in farmland assigned to governmental and private organizations are introduced. Each of these topics, as well as preliminary questions concerning related farmland ownership issues were the focus of the 1997 farmland ownership and tenancy study. Data were analyzed, general conclusions drawn, and possible policy implications discussed relating to farmland ownership and tenancy within the state of Iowa.

On the Margin of Capitalism: People and Development in Mukim Plentong, Johor, Malaysia

Abstract: Malaysian 'development' has been concentrated first in plantation crops, and more recently in industrial growth. The Malaysian Government has attempted to decentralize the country's industrial activities by setting up industrial estates in smaller towns and rural locations. This book traces the industrial growth of a rural subdistrict in Johor following the state's investment in the 1,000-hectare Pasir Gudang Industrial Estate on the Johor Straits, the inflow of considerable foreign and domestic capital, the establishment of several key industries, and a massive housing development. It analyses the impact of these developments on the Malay rural kampongs, Chinese New Villages, agricultural plantations, and the FELDA resettlement scheme that existed prior to the establishment of the industrial estate. While the state is rightly proud of Pasir Gudang's impressive capital growth, it is less assured of the welfare and livelihood of its people. Industrial development has led to the displacement of the rural workforce and the increasing dependence of local residents on wage labour in factories. The creation of a large migrant population has strained public services to breaking point and further aggravated the problems of tenancy and squatting. In addition, severe social tensions and racial divisions have coloured the transformation of industrial and residential areas.

Does Sharecropping Affect Long-term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal's Tenancy Reforms

Abstract: In India, land reform has been high on the political agenda since independence in 1947, and early efforts at abolishing intermediaries are widely credited with having brought about significant social benefits. The most prominent type is tenancy reform. As it does not extinguish landlords’ ownership rights, tenants — who may have benefited from rent ceilings and cannot be evicted — still have to pay annual share rent. This weakness of rights may fail to create the incentives for effort supply and long-term investment that have underpinned the success of land reforms elsewhere, effectively adding a dynamic inefficiency to the disincentives created by the Marshallian inefficiency of sharecropping. This could imply that despite the high political price of implementing land reform in India, the schemes so far have failed to reach their productivity and poverty reduction potential.