Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107967 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2014/140
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Land tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields. In order to obtain better returns, some females rent their plots to males, but risk losing the plots to their tenants. A model has been constructed to explain rentingout decisions of female small landholders, an issue largely ignored in the agricultural economics literature. The results, based on a survey of female landholders in Ethiopia, highlight the factors that explain renting-out decisions.
Subjects: 
climate variability
female-headed households
productivity
tenure insecurity
JEL: 
D2
Q12
Q15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-861-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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