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    • Defragmenting resource management on the southeast arm of Lake Malawi : case of fisheries 

      Ngochera, Maxon; Donda, Steve; Hara, Mafaniso; Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2017:12, Working paper, 2017)
      The Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi catchment has a wide range of natural resources that require prudent management for sustainability and maximisation of benefits. The current management practice is government sector based, ...

    • Is Ethiopia’s productive safety net program enhancing dependency? 

      Araya, Girma Berhe; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2017:5, Working paper, 2017)
      Although development intervention programs can have far-reaching impacts beyond their stated objective, there have been few careful studies of unintended outcomes of such programs. This study assesses the impact of Ethiopia’s ...

    • The adoption potential of conservation agriculture technologies in Malawi : a lead farmer promoter-adopter approach and assessment 

      Fisher, Monica; Holden, Stein Terje; Katengeza, Samson P. (CLTS Working paper;2017:1, Working paper, 2017)
      This paper assesses the adoption potential of conservation agriculture (CA) technologies in Malawi, where CA appears highly appropriate. Estimation of CA adoption rates and their determinants is complicated by the relatively ...

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

      Gebru, Menasbo; Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2017:10, Working paper, 2017)
      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 ...

    • Probability weighting and input use intensity in a state-contingent framework 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Quiggin, John (CLTS Working paper;2017:8, Working paper, 2017)
      Climate risk represents an increasing threat to poor and vulnerable farmers in drought-prone areas of Africa. This study assesses the fertilizer adoption responses of food insecure farmers in Malawi, where Drought Tolerant ...

    • Land rental as a complementary income source for land-poor youth 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;6/18, Working paper, 2018)
      Continued high population growth in already densely populated rural areas in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa makes it harder for youth to choose agriculture as their main source of income. We investigate whether near landless ...

    • Understanding Norwegian commons 

      Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;10/18, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper reviews the development of the legal status of Norwegian commons from the first known legislation on commons. The development can be divided into 5 periods. The first period lasted until about 1300. In this ...

    • Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Africa 

      Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2018:1, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper investigates the important role of fertilizer to enhance sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a multi-disciplinary literature review. The review starts with a macro-perspective ...

    • Gender Digital Divide and Youth Business Group Leadership. 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2018:5, Working paper, 2018)
      We assess the gender difference in mobile phone ownership among youth business group members, and how it affects election into leadership and group board positions in recently established rural youth business groups in ...

    • The economics of fertilizer subsidies 

      Holden, Stein (CLTS Working paper;9/18, Working paper, 2018)
      Fertilizer and other input subsidies have been a prominent component of agricultural policies in many Asian and African countries since the 1960s. Their economic and political rationale is scrutinized with emphasis on the ...

    • Grunnvassforvaltning: om Elinor Ostrom si tilnærming til forvaltning av grunnvatn 

      Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;8/18, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper discusses the challenges present in the management of groundwater. The theoretical approach of Elinor Ostrom is presented and her study of the management of groundwater in Southern California in the 1960ies is ...

    • Gender differences in risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness: Are they related? 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;2018:3, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper assesses risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness among male and female youth group members in recently formed primary cooperative businesses in Ethiopia. Male members are found to be more risk tolerant, trusting ...

    • Variation in output shares and endogenous matching in land rental contracts 

      Brhanu, Desta; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2018:2, Working paper, 2018)
      We investigate the extent of variation in output sharing in land rental contracts and alternative hypotheses to explain this variation. Close to half of the rental contracts in our study in northern Ethiopia have output ...

    • Learning from man or machine: Spatial aggregation and house price prediction 

      Sommervoll, Dag EInar; Sommervoll, Åvald (CLTS Working paper;2018:4, Working paper, 2018)
      House prices vary with location. At the same time the border between two neighboring housing markets tends to be fuzzy. When we seek to explain or predict house prices we need to correct for spatial price variation. A ...

    • A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act 

      Sky, Per Kåre (CLTS Working paper;7/18, Working paper, 2018)
      The Land Consolidation Act has recently been revised. The changes came into force on 1 July 2006 and 1 January 2007. The main changes in the Act are that the land consolidation court now has formal jurisdiction to handle ...

    • Learning cooperation from the commons 

      Berge, Erling (CLTS Working paper;2/19, Working paper, 2019)
      The paper discusses the link between commons as they might have been used in prehistoric Norway and the rules concerning the exploitation of the commons as found in the oldest known legislation for regions of Norway, ...

    • How related are risk preferences and time preferences? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;4/19, Working paper, 2019)
      Risk and time preferences are fundamentally important for financial decisions. We study such preferences for business group members based on field experiments in Ethiopia. The relationship between risk preferences and time ...

    • Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? : evidence from northern Ethiopia 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;7/19, Working paper, 2019)
      Continued strong population growth in already densely populated rural areas in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa makes it harder for youth to choose agriculture as their main source of income. We investigate whether near landless ...

    • How do social preferences and norms of reciprocity affect generalized and particularized trust? 

      Holden, Stein T.; Tilahun, Mesfin (CLTS Working paper;8/19, Working paper, 2019)
      We study how social preferences and norms of reciprocity are related to generalized and particularized trust among members of youth business groups in northern Ethiopia. Members of these groups are recruited among land-poor ...

    • Transaction costs and land rental market participation in Malawi 

      Tione, Sarah E.; Holden, Stein T. (CLTS Working paper;9/19, Working paper, 2019)
      We assess the extent of access and degree of participation by smallholder tenants in the land rental market in Malawi. Our study is based on three rounds of nationally representative Living Standards Measurement Surveys ...