Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/88349 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ZEF Working Paper Series No. 119
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn
Abstract: 
Land rights are essential assets for improving the livelihoods of the rural poor. This literature based paper shed light to some land rights issues that are crucial for the effectiveness and sustainability of implementing technological innovations in marginalized rural areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, India and Bangladesh. By analysing country specific land right regimes, this paper aims to understand what institutional conditions might constitute barriers to the effective implementation of technological innovations and how they might be overcome. Land rights issues considered in this paper include public and private ownership of land in Ethiopia, customary and statutory law in Ghana, and gender equality and land rights in India and Bangladesh. A better understanding of institutional barriers for the effective implementation of technological innovations is a precondition for complementing technological with enabling institutional innovations and for improving priority setting, targeting and sequencing in the implementation of productivity increasing development measures.
Subjects: 
Marginality
agriculture
technological innovations
institutions
land rights
tenure security
gender equality
customary law
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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