@article{visser_roux_mulwa_tibesigwa_bezabih_2024, title={Adaptive investment with land tenure and weather risk: Behavioral evidence from Tanzania}, volume={217}, ISSN={["1879-1751"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.jebo.2023.10.040}, abstractNote={Two important risks faced by many smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are erratic weather patterns and insecure land tenure. It is likely these risks will increasingly interact as projections of more erratic weather make small-scale farming more difficult and demand for rural land grows. This paper asks how farmers in Western Tanzania view these compound risks and the influence this has on levels of investment in adaptive agricultural technologies and the demand for land certification in a lab-in-the-field setting. Presenting novel data from a series of framed decision tasks linked to a household survey, this paper explores the relationship between individual risk preferences, adaptive investment and the demand for land certification from a group of 645 rural households in Kigoma, Tanzania. While adaptive investment increases with weather related risk, we find it responds negatively to land tenure risk. Individual risk preferences and past experiences of land disputes play significant roles in adaptive investment. Demand for land certification is high, investment increases significantly after certification, especially for risk-averse individuals.}, journal={JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION}, author={Visser, Martine and Roux, Leonard and Mulwa, Chalmers K. and Tibesigwa, Byela and Bezabih, Mintewab}, year={2024}, month={Jan}, pages={398–434} }
 @article{bezabih_teklewold_zewdie_2024, title={The influence of large scale land acquisition on smallholder farming productivity- the case of Zambia}, volume={33}, ISSN={["2452-2929"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.wdp.2024.100565}, abstractNote={This paper utilizes household level panel data from Zambia to analyze the impact of a LSLA on small holder farmers’ productivity, differentiated by male and female-owned farms. Our results suggest that while LSLA is not a significant determinant of smallholder agricultural productivity overall, female-headed households seem to gain a moderate productivity increase. There is also evidence of beneficial spillover effects in terms of technology use, with increase in modern seed use as a result of LSLA (but not on fertilizer use or crop diversification). However, the results do not show significant gender-differentiated impacts of LSLA neither on technological spillover, nor on tenure security. In sum, while LSLA seems to benefit women overall, the two potential avenues through which LSLA affects men and women differently-technological spillover and tenure insecurity, do not seem to have gender-based impacts.}, journal={WORLD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES}, author={Bezabih, Mintewab and Teklewold, Hailemariam and Zewdie, Samuel A.}, year={2024}, month={Mar} }