Tenure Insecurity, Gender, Low-cost Land Certification and Land Rental Market Participation in Ethiopia

Can low-cost and pro-poor land reforms be implemented and scaled up in Africa? Can such reforms even be beneficial to female-headed households who traditionally have weak property rights? This recently published paper in Journal of Development Studies provides new evidence on the impacts of low-cost land registration and certification on female-headed households in Tigray region in Ethiopia.

A man holding up his land certificate in Tigray. Women typically positioned below the men.

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Authors:
Stein T. Holden, Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB),
Klaus Deininger, World Bank and
Hosaena Ghebru, Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)