Towards poverty alleviation in developing countries: An empirical study of the impact of land tenure reforms in Kati, Mali.

ABSTRACT: Post-colonial land tenure reforms in emerging countries have partly aimed at poverty reduction through equitable land access. However, the poverty rate keeps rising in rural and peri-urban settings in Sub-Saharan Africa dominated by agricultural activities. This article reviews land tenure reforms in Mali, from the year 2000 to 2017 regarding poverty alleviation and evaluates their impacts on indigenous smallholder farmers, using multiple linear and logistic regression models and local experts' elicitations. The results indicate that the advent of land titles as the only definitive evidence of land ownership, following the reforms, has generally weakened customary land management. Smallholder farmers face several barriers to obtaining land titles, limiting equity in land access and securit

SUBMITTER: Coulibaly B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7932540 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature