Land Policy and Food Prices: Evidence from a Land Consolidation Program in Rwanda

impacts of land consolidation and land rehabilitation project on rural food security in miandarband region

introduction food security over the past decade was one of the main objectives of rural development policies in many countries. agricultural policies such as productive improvement, conservation and utilization of water and land resources are being considered in the heart of development projects. among these initiatives to achieve improved quality of infrastructure, environment and welfare is t...

Spillovers from Universities: Evidence from the Land-Grant Program

Housing, Land Prices, and Growth

We consider the effects of land for housing on the growth process within an overlapping generations model. Our original interest was to enquire whether the introduction of land into a growth model might account for a “virtuous” circle in which saving-up for land (or housing) generates growth and higher land prices, generating further increases in saving, and so on. Such an account is sometimes ...

Part Iv: Modelling Land Prices and Land-use Transitions

Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa Pilot evidence from Rwanda

Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda’s nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects that is used to evaluate the pilot for this programme points to three main effects; namely, (i)...