PhD Dissertations

The Center for Land Tenure Studies aims to contribute to capacity-building in the South as well as in Norway. We aim to do much of our research in collaboration with young researchers from the South. PhD dissertations is one type of output from this activity.

Here we present PhD Dissertations that at least partly focus on land tenure issues and that have been completed at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences from the year 2010 and onwards.

2021
Veronica Trygstad (2021). Matrikkelføring av saker utført av jordskifteretten [Cadastral records of cases conducted by the land consolidation court]. Department of Property and Law, LANDSAM, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Menasbo Gebru Tesfay (2021). Land rental markets, technology adoption, and smallholders’ commercialization in a semi-arid economy. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

2020
Tione, S. E. (2020). Land markets and agricultural household decisions nexus in Malawi. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

2019
Muuz, H. G. (2019). The economic implication of animal feed scarcity on farm intensifcation, food production and consumption: empirical evidence from Tigrai, Ethiopia. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

2018
Gammelmo, L. (2018). Forsvarlig saksbehandling av endring av fast eiendom : en undersøkelse og evaluering av norske kommuners praksis i 2015. PhD dissertation. Department of Property and Law-Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Katengeza, S. P. (2018). Climate-smart agriculture in Malawi: uptake and opportunities in the face of climate change. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Cammelli, F. (2018). Persistent miscoordination: an economics of Amazon fires. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.
2016
Westberg. NB (2016). Four empirical essays on agriculture and human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Skjeflo, SW (2016). Climate change and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: Four approaches to modeling agricultural households. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Debela, BL  (2016).Attaining Secure Rural Livelihoods: The Role of Household Strategies and Public Interventions. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

2014
Ramsjord, EH (2014). Property formation in urban transformation. PhD dissertation. Deptartment of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Dokken, T. (2014). Tenure rights, forest reliance and policies for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. PhD dissertation. School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.


2012
Ainembabazi, JH (2012). Landholding, Forest extraction and Poverty in Uganda. PhD dissertation. Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.


2011
Aryal, JP (2011). Caste Discrimination, Land Tenure, and Natural Resource Management in Nepal.PhD dissertation. Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Tatwangire, A. (2011). Access to Productive Assets and Impact on Household Welfare in Rural Uganda. PhD dissertation. Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Hussein, JS  (2011). Politics and Property Rights Regimes in Land in Arsi Negele and Hetossa, South-Central Oromia, Ethiopia: Late 1880s-2006.
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Pétursson, JG  (2011). Institutions and Transboundary Protected Area Management: The Case of Mt. Elgon, Kenya.
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2010
Lunduka, R. W. (2010). Land Rental Markets, Investment and Productivity under Customary Land Tenure Systems in Malawi. PhD-dissertation. Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Tadesse, M. (2010). Essays on Contracts, Risk Coping and Technology Adoption in Ethiopia. PhD-dissertation. Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Ghebru, H. (2010). Land Policy Reforms and the Land Rental Market in Ethiopia. Equity, Productivity, and Welfare Implications. PhD dissertation. Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas.

Tiki Uma, W. (2010). The Dynamics of the Ancient Tula Wells Cultural Landscape: Environmental and Social History, ca. 1560 to the Present.
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