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Transaction costs and land rental market participation in Malawi
(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 ... -
Urban proximity, demand for land and land prices in Malawi
(CLTS Working paper;1/19, Working paper, 2019)We assess the spatial and intertemporal change patterns of farmland prices using per hectare minimum willingness to accept (WTA) sales and rental prices in Malawi. We use three rounds of nationally representative household ... -
Gender assessment of youth business groups : female participation and characteristics
(CLTS Working paper;6/19, Working paper, 2019)This working paper is an output from the research project “Youth Business Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model” that is funded by Research Council of Norway under the NORGLOBAL2 research ... -
The economics of fertilizer subsidies
(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
(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 ... -
The Devil is in the details : risk preferences, choice list design, and measurement error
(CLTS Working paper;3/19, Working paper, 2019)We use a field experiment to estimate the risk preferences of 945 youth and young adult members of 116 rural business groups organized as primary cooperatives in a semi-arid risky environment in northern Ethiopia. Multiple ... -
A comment on changes in the Norwegian Land Consolidation Act
(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 ... -
Youth business groups and leadership : group leader and member survey statistics
(CLTS Working paper;5/19, Working paper, 2019)This working paper is an output from the research project “Youth Business Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model” that is funded by Research Council of Norway under the NORGLOBAL2 research ... -
Gender Digital Divide and Youth Business Group Leadership.
(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 ... -
Gender differences in risk tolerance, trust and trustworthiness: Are they related?
(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 ... -
Learning from man or machine: Spatial aggregation and house price prediction
(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 ... -
Adoption of soil fertility management technologies in Malawi : impact of drought exposure
(CLTS Working paper;2017:11, Working paper, 2017)Soil fertility management (SFM) technologies may potentially protect against climate risks, reduce nutrient depletion and enhance food security. In this paper, we study impact of drought exposure on adoption and adoption ... -
Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Africa
(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 ... -
Food for work and diet diversity in Ethiopia
(CLTS Working paper;2017:14, Working paper, 2017)We use four waves of panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the link between Food for Work (FFW) participation and the diversity of food consumption and production. Food-based transfer programs have become a ... -
Policies for improved food security : the roles of land tenure policies and land markets
(CLTS Working paper;2017:9, Working paper, 2017)This chapter provides an overview of what we know about farm size distributions, the emerging land markets, the role of tenure systems, tenure reforms and land policies in shaping the distribution of increasingly scarce ... -
Group trust in youth business groups : influenced by risk tolerance and expected trustworthiness
(CLTS Working paper;2017:13, Working paper, 2017)We analyzed lab-in-the-field trust and risk experiment with 1125 youth in 119 youth groups established as primary cooperatives to develop a joint business. The experiments were implemented using classrooms in local schools ... -
Defragmenting resource management on the southeast arm of Lake Malawi : case of fisheries
(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, ... -
Variation in output shares and endogenous matching in land rental contracts
(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 ... -
Can the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? : evidence from northern Ethiopia
(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
(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 ...