This article reviews the past and potential future roles of land tenure reforms and land
markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) as responses to population growth in the process of …

This article presents a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops it, based
on a comprehensive database of 121 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation …

We use a large data set from Ethiopia that differentiates tenure security and transferability to
explore determinants of different types of land-related investment and its possible impact on …

This paper examines forest income among rural dwellers in one of Malawi's most densely
populated districts, Chiradzulu. 160 households were interviewed in two sites, only 20 km …

This study examined farmers' attitudes towards tree planting on farms in Malawi, using the
theory of planned behaviour as a conceptual framework. Questionnaires containing a scale …

This article updates our previous comprehensive meta-analysis of what drives and stops
deforestation (Busch and Ferretti-Gallon). By including six additional years of research, this …

We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape
the tragedy of the commons, and hence the de facto property rights regime, is endogenously …

This paper reviews the research on land use change and its corresponding ecological
responses. Patterns of land use changes in spatio-temporal level are produced by the …

Security of property rights, or tenure, is central to the economics of development and is
recognized as important for the adoption and implementation of sustainable forest …

We examine the emergence of land markets and their effects on forest land appropriation by
farm households in Jambi Province, Sumatra, using micro-level data covering land use and …