scholarly journals Differences in Attitude toward Farmland Management between Farmers and Absentee Landowners, and Challenges Related to Initiatives Dealing with Absentee Landowners

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-240
Author(s):  
Takeo Kubo ◽  
Yoshihito Itohara
Keyword(s):  
Absentee Landowners

scholarly journals EXTERNALITIES, PROFIT, AND LAND STEWARDSHIP: CONFLICTING MOTIVES FOR SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION ADOPTION AMONG ABSENTEE LANDOWNERS AND ON-FARM PRODUCERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN H. TONG ◽  
TRACY A. BOYER ◽  
LARRY D. SANDERS
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Soil And Water Conservation ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Absentee Landowners ◽  
Conservation Adoption ◽  
On Farm ◽  
Soil And Water

AbstractThis research aimed to illicit nonfarming absentee landowners’ and producers’ preferences for the benefits and characteristics derived from conservation practices during adoption decisions using maximum difference scaling, also called the best-worst method. Both groups are found to rank and value the attributes and reasons for adoption of conservation practices differently at the 95% significance level. This difference between the two groups reinforced the importance of land tenure in decision making. This indicated the need for new extension educational efforts, research efforts, and economic incentives to reduce negative externalities that could be ameliorated from adoption of soil and water conservation practices.

The rise and rise of agricultural wage labour: evidence from Ethiopia's south, c.1950–2000

Africa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Girma Negash
Keyword(s):  
Arable Land ◽  
Land Grants ◽  
Initial Stimulus ◽  
Coffee Plantations ◽  
Wage Labour ◽  
Demographic Heterogeneity ◽  
Absentee Landowners ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Coffee Farming

AbstractThis article seeks to examine the dynamic transformation in the system of labour mobilization and the consequent intermingling of peoples of diverse cultural background in northern Sidama, Ethiopia. It investigates the different labour recruitment strategies deployed in the study area at different times, ranging from traditional to hired labour. In the former case, the household plays a major role in the recruitment and supply of agricultural labour, whereas in the latter case, ‘trans-locality’ reinforced by migration becomes central to the labour history of the region. In the 1940s and 1950s, Emperor Haile Selassie I granted large estates of land in the study area to absentee landowners who started schemes of commercial coffee farming. The subsequent expansion of commercialized coffee farming in a locality called Wondo Gänät (northern Sidama) from the 1950s onwards was responsible for the introduction of agricultural wage labour into the wider region. There was no local surplus labour to satisfy the labour needs of the new coffee farms. This void was later filled by Kembata, Hadiya and Wolayita migrant labourers who flocked into the study area from regions widely noted for their scarcity of arable land. This translocal movement of workers paved the way for the beginning of wage employment and eventually the commodification of farm labour in line with capitalist agriculture. Although commercial coffee plantations provided the initial stimulus for labour commodification in the study area, sugar cane-based cash cropping has helped it flourish even further. I argue in this article that the imperial land grants of the late 1940s and 1950s were an important milestone both for the agricultural history of the study area and for the organization of farm labour. Most importantly, I also argue that some of the social tensions and conflicts that often haunt contemporary northern Sidama are legacies inherited from the labour migrations of the 1950s and 1960s and the demographic heterogeneity that ensued.

scholarly journals Policy lessons from spatiotemporal enrollment patterns of Payment for Ecosystem Service Programs in Argentina

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio M. Núñez-Regueiro ◽  
Lyn C. Branch ◽  
Josh Hiller ◽  
Cristina Núñez Godoy ◽  
Sharmin Siddiqui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Selection ◽  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Service Programs ◽  
Enrollment Patterns ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Absentee Landowners ◽  
Degraded Ecosystems

AbstractOver the last 50 years, payment for ecosystem services schemes (PES) have been lauded as a market-based solution to curtail deforestation and restore degraded ecosystems. However, PES programs often fail to conserve sites under strong long-term deforestation pressures and allocate financial resources without having a sizeable impact on long-term land use change. Underperformance, in part, is likely due to adverse selection as landowners with land at the lowest threat from conversion or loss may be most likely to enroll or enrollment may be for short time-periods. Improving program performance to overcome adverse selection requires understanding attributes of landowners and their land across large scales to identify spatial and temporal enrollment patterns that drive adverse selection. In this paper, we examine these patterns in Argentina’s PES program in the endangered Chaco forest ecoregion, which was established in 2007 under the National Forest Law. Our study area covers 252,319 km2. Among our most important findings is that large parcels of enrolled land and land owned by absentee landowners show greater evidence of spatiotemporal adverse selection than smaller plots of land and land owned by local actors. Furthermore, lands managed for conservation and restoration are more likely to be associated with adverse selection than lands that provide financial returns such as harvest of non-timber forest products, silviculture, and silvopasture. However, prior to recommending that PES programs focus on land uses with higher potential earnings, a greater understanding is needed of the degree to which these land uses meet ecological and biodiversity goals of PES programs. Because of this, we posit that a PES incorporating a market-based compensation strategy that varies with commodity prices, along with approaches that provide incentives for conservation and restoration land uses and enrollment of local landowners, could promote long-term conservation of endangered lands.

Spatial Public Goods. 1: Theory

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Y Papageorgiou
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
Spatial Context ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
The Public ◽  
Land Rents ◽  
Absentee Landowners ◽  
New Feature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Explicit Comparison

This is the first of a two-part series of papers dealing with public goods in a spatial context. Public goods here are treated as being intentional spatial externalities. In that context, the new feature to be dealt with is optimal public investment, the impact of which diffuses, somehow, over space. First, the landscape, the spatial structure of the public good, and the decision framework are described both for the individuals involved and for the planner. Then, the issue of decentralisation is discussed in the case where land rents go to absentee landowners. An explicit comparison between private goods, public goods, and externalities in a spatial context follows, and the first part ends with the problem of allocating land to public goods. The second part deals with some conceptual applications.

Absentee landowners and conservation programs: Mind the gap

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 220-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy Petrzelka ◽  
Stephanie Malin ◽  
Brian Gentry
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Programs ◽  
Absentee Landowners

Understanding Management Decisions of Absentee Landowners: More Than Just Presence-Absence

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Sorice ◽  
Kiandra Rajala ◽  
Urs P. Kreuter
Keyword(s):  
Management Decisions ◽  
Absentee Landowners

Deforestation in the Dominican Republic: a village-level view

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY S. BROTHERS
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Karst Region ◽  
Agricultural Colonization ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Absentee Landowners ◽  
The Government ◽  
Pasture Conversion

Deforestation is still rapid in some parts of the Caribbean, though it has attracted much less attention than deforestation in mainland Latin America. This paper examines the history and causes of the recent rapid deforestation of a lowland karst region of the Dominican Republic in the light of models derived from studies in Central America and the Amazon. Investigation was limited to the vicinity of a single village (Los Limones). Information was drawn from interviews, questionnaires and ground reconnaissance, in addition to archival information and aerial photographs. Deforestation at Los Limones involved many of the same elements seen in mainland deforestation, including construction of access roads, spontaneous agricultural colonization, and pasture conversion, but it followed no single mainland model. Logging, not normally emphasized as a cause of Latin American deforestation, played an important role in opening up the forest to agricultural settlement. Pasture conversion was not a matter of aggregation of large ranches by wealthy absentee landowners, as in the Amazon, but apparently a local response to the economic and ecological advantages of cattle raising. Government actions strongly influenced deforestation, but not via colonization schemes or economic subsidies for cattle ranching; the rhythm of deforestation at Los Limones was tied to the monopolistic practices of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and the social disorganization following his assassination. The national government in fact bears the primary responsibility for deforestation of Los Haitises, a conclusion that contradicts the government's own suggestion that the destruction was largely carried out by poor farmers. Prospects for rehabilitation of the deforested area are gloomy because of the extent of ecological damage and the continued adversarial relationship between the government and the rural population.

scholarly journals Impact of Land Tenure System on Socio-Economic Characteristics in Selected Areas of Mymensingh

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Z Haque ◽  
T Jinan
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Fixed Amount ◽  
Tenure System ◽  
Absentee Landowners ◽  
Land Tenure System ◽  
Average Annual Income

The present study aims at investigating into the existing land tenure system of Dorirampur, Jhairpar and Goisa para at Traishal Upazila of Mymensingh District. Keeping in view the objectives 70 samples were randomly selected. Survey method was followed to collect required data. Sampled farmers belonged to six tenurial groups. Out of 70 respondents 34, 22, 16, 7, 10 and 11 percent of total were owner operators, part operators, part tenants, part operator-cum-part tenants, tenants and absentee landowners respectively during the study year. In the study, out of 70 respondents 67 percent were owner operator, 33 percent of them were tenant operators. The selected farmers in the study area practiced three types of share cropping system: i) fifty-fifty share cropping, ii) forty-sixty share cropping and iii) fixed amount of paddy payment. The average annual income were found to be Tk. 97096, 128267, 5215, 76340, 35871 and 113563 respectively for owner operator, part operators, part tenants, part operator-cum-part tenants, tenants and absentee landowner. Analysis of annual income reveals a positive relationship between tenure category and that of annual income during the study area.J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 10(2): 133-142 2017

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