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Famine in the Horn of Africa: Understanding institutional arrangements in land tenure systems

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Title Famine in the Horn of Africa: Understanding institutional arrangements in land tenure systems
 
Creator Azadi, Hossein
Burkart, Stefan
Moghaddam, Saghi Movahhed
Mahmoudi, Hossein
Janečková, Kristina
Sklenička, Petr
Ho, Peter
Teklemariam, Dereje
Nadiri, Halil
 
Subject land management
land tenure
land ownership
 
Description Natural calamities such as drought, famine, and climate change have collided to create a humanitarian crisis. For the Horn of Africa (HoA), famine is among the factors that have caused the worst historical damages to the individual countries. Man-made calamities such as decentralized agricultural, pastoral activities and forest clearing are also root causes for the damage. Institutional arrangements (IAs) on land tenure systems and agricultural land conversion (ALC) as a part of this problem will be analyzed in this paper. Poor IAs on land are considered the main cause of insecure land tenure which diminishes the productivity of agriculture in this region, and this, specifically in times of drought, exacerbates famine. Accordingly, the paper explores the idea that to what extent poor IAs on land tenure systems can explain the famine in the HoA. IAs on land comprise two main functions: land quality management and regulation and standard-setting for land utilization. The types of IAs for land often differ. The “optimal” arrangement depends on political, economic, social, climatic, geographical, and technical factors that together form a complex system of IAs.
 
Date 2022-11-01
2021-03-25T08:29:20Z
2021-03-25T08:29:20Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Azadi, H.; Burkart, S.; Moghaddam, S.M.; Mahmoudi, H.; Janečková, K.; Sklenička, P.; Ho, P.; Teklemariam, D.; Nadiri, J. (2021) Famine in the Horn of Africa: Understanding institutional arrangements in land tenure systems. Food Reviews International. Online first paper (15 March 2021). 17 p. ISSN: 1525-6103
1525-6103
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/113106
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/87559129.2021.1888974?journalCode=lfri20
https://doi.org/10.1080/87559129.2021.1888974
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 829-845
application/pdf
 
Publisher Informa UK Limited
 
Source Food Reviews International