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Factors Influencing Sale and Renting out Traditional Land where Customary Laws Normally have Regulated Land Transactions: Malawi Case Study

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dc.contributor.author Gondwe, Ishmael V. en_US
dc.contributor.author Moyo, Gunvor Iversen en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:31:46Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:31:46Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-10-24 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-10-24 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/718
dc.description.abstract "Poverty and scarcity of land, combined with mostly customary land available for agricultural activities, may present a dilemma when it comes to land transactions. This is becoming increasingly complicated by the fear of encroachment or losing of land (land safety) due to modernisation, technological development and rapid population growth. In principle, customary land cannot be used freely by the household allocated the land, but will be distributed and redistributed by the traditional authorities of the community. Hence, the individual household cannot freely use land as a commodity to dispose of in times of need, or to acquire more of, in times of plenty. Hence land transactions by households would be expected to be rare where customary land is involved. However, land transactions on the household level do occur, both in the form of sales, and less drastically, of renting out. This paper seeks to explore what factors can be used to explain such land transactions in Malawi, using data from the NACAL project and a logistic regression approach. It will explore whether the same, or different regression models, can explain the two forms of land transactions analysed. The paper will try to also see the link between determinants of land safety and land transactions in order to fully understand key determinants of the study question." en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use--case studies en_US
dc.subject transaction costs--case studies en_US
dc.subject scarcity--case studies en_US
dc.subject safety--case studies en_US
dc.title Factors Influencing Sale and Renting out Traditional Land where Customary Laws Normally have Regulated Land Transactions: Malawi Case Study en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.coverage.region Africa en_US
dc.coverage.country Malawi en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth July en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates July 14-18, 2008 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Cheltenham, England en_US
dc.submitter.email elsa_jin@yahoo.com en_US


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