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标题：Do Land Disputes Affect Smallholder Agricultural Productivity? Evidence from Kenya
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作者：Milu Muyanga ; Raphael Gitau
期刊名称：Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development
印刷版ISSN：2222-2855
电子版ISSN：2222-2855
出版年度：2013
卷号：4
期号：14
页码：112-121
语种：English
出版社：The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
摘要：Rural households experience land disputes with relatives or neighbors. These conflicts, even if small-scale in nature, may have considerable impact on incentive to invest on land productivity enhancing inputs. This study investigates the impacts of land disputes on households’ incentive to invest in farmyard manure and inorganic fertilizers, and on crop productivity in Kenya. A truncated normal hurdle model is applied on farm plot level data. The results show that land conflicts affect smallholder farmers’ optimization behaviour. Farmers are indisposed to apply farmyard manure or to plant perennial crops on disputed plots. When other production inputs are controlled for, active land disputes reduce agricultural productivity through other avenues such as constrained crop choice and reduced crop care by about 13 percent. In view of these results and in the context of the ever shrinking farm sizes, the efficiency of land disputes resolution systems emerge very important policy issue.
关键词：Land disputes; chemical fertilizers; organic fertilizers; agriculture; Kenya