Farm Land in UK Law
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Institutional inefficiency: small farms starve India’s economy
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine differences in property institutions in the USA and India and their effects on agricultural productivity. Design/methodology/approach: This paper u...... ... development in the USA and India, with a focus on changes in farm sizeover time.Findings –In the USA, unlimited individual land ownership ... ...
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Land Sales and Rental Markets in Transition: Evidence from Rural Vietnam*
Impact and desirability of land transfers in post‐socialist‐transition economies have been subject of considerable debate. We use data from Vietnam to identify factors conducive to the development ...... ... sales transfer land to more productive producers but that rental is more important for the poor to access land that becomes available as the non-farm economy develops. The fact that secure land rights significantly increase supply of land to the rental market suggests that govern- ment has a key ... ...
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Land tenurial dynamics and participatory forestry management in Bangladesh
Of late, participatory forestry management, more popularly known as ‘social forestry’ (SF), has acquired great significance in Bangladesh as a strategy for both forest resource management and rural...... ... focuses on the perceptions and choice of the SF farmers regarding landownership, tenure and use; implications of central land tenurial policy on farm productivityand farmers' motivation; and also on the dierence between farmers' land use choice and theassumptions of the SF planners. It shows ... ...
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Governing the Global Land Grab
Following the 2007–2008 world food price crisis, the value of developing world agricultural land shot up, raising concerns about a ‘land grab’, In response, the Committee on World Food Security (CF...... ... that effectively transformed debates over developing world agricultural land from an eco- nomic or consequentialist issue of increasing farm productivity and output into a moral or deontological one of protecting the human rights of those who worked the land through customary use. The ... ...
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Intergroup Conflict in the Southern Philippines: An Empirical Analysis
This study explores the utility of social-psychological factors, inferred from aggregate or ecological data, which had brought about (or depressed) the emergence of intergroup violence between Musl...... ... considered inhibitors, namely: size of Christian population, land ownership, and farm population. Some interpretive conclusions were ... ...
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Seedling production and choice among cashew farmers in Ghana: a profitability analysis
Purpose: The unavailability and inadequate use of cashew seedlings for propagation are part of the challenges facing the cashew sub-sector in Ghana. However, promoting investment into cashew seedli...... ... The positivedeterminants of the use of cashew seedlings were off-farm job participation and extension contact, whereasfarm size and age of ation negatively influenced the use of seedlings. Land acquisition method alsoinfluenced the use of both seedlings and seeds ... ...
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Agricultural practices in a drought-prone region of India: opportunities for S&T innovations
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the agricultural practices in a drought-prone region of India in an effort to find out how science, technology and innovation (STI) measures can addr...... ... sampling based on landholdings (small farmers having 1–2 ha of land, medium farmers having 2.1–5 ha of land and large farmershaving more ... The paper recommends that farmer’s school or “on-farm training school”haveto be initiated to integrate farmers’traditional ... ...
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Legal frameworks for urban agriculture: Sydney case study
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the planning policy and legal framework governing the creation and operation of urban agriculture in Sydney, Australia’s global city. All levels of urban agricul...... ... of the recognition and re-establishmentof agricultureas a desired land use in cities. Three examples are selected for closer scrutiny –Horsley ... , located in theWestern Sydney Parklands; City of Sydney’s City Farm, located in theinner suburb of St Peters; and the Western Sydney ... ...
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Legal frameworks for urban agriculture: Sydney case study
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the planning policy and legal framework governing the creation and operation of urban agriculture in Sydney, Australia’s global city. All levels of urban agricul...... ... of the recognition and re-establishmentof agricultureas a desired land use in cities. Three examples are selected for closer scrutiny –Horsley ... , located in theWestern Sydney Parklands; City of Sydney’s City Farm, located in theinner suburb of St Peters; and the Western Sydney ... ...
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Book Review: Switzerland in Perspective
... ... fol- lows: "Over 92% of the Ting Hsien families owned some farm land. Over 96% farmed some land. All but 5.484 of the 70.034 ... ...
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