Preferences for land sales legalization and land values in Ethiopia |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre of West African Studies, Department of African Studies & Anthropology, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, UK;2. Centre for Development Studies, Department of Social and Policy Sciences,University of Bath, UK;1. Institute of Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Tabuleiro do Martins, Maceió, AL 57072-900, Brazil;2. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 7PS, UK;1. Project Research Group, Urban and the Environment Division, Kawasaki Environment Research Institute, City of Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan;2. Center for Research Strategy, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;3. Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK;1. University of Vienna, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria;2. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan;3. PRIMAFF – Policy Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery, Tokyo, Japan;4. Centre de Droit International, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium;1. Imperial College London, United Kingdom;2. Imperial College London and the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land among smallholder households in the southern highlands of Ethiopia. Household panel data from 2007 and 2012 are used. The large majority of the sample prefers land sales to remain illegal, and the resistance to legalizing land sales increased from 2007 to 2012. While resistance against land sales was strongest among the most land poor in 2007, the relatively more land rich had become more negative towards legalizing land sales in 2012. Younger age and more education were not associated with a more positive attitude towards legalizing land sales. In the same period, perceived median real land values increased sharply but also exhibit substantial local variation with higher land values in areas with better market access. Stated minimum land sales prices increased with farm size in 2012. The substantial increase in perceived land values, high economic growth and outmigration of youth have yet to persuade the rural population in southern Ethiopia to open the land sales market. |
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| Keywords: | Legalization of land sales Household preferences WTA land sale prices WTA compensation prices Southern Ethiopia |
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