The paper on "Numeracy skills learning of children in Africa:—Are disabled children lagging behind?" written by Huafeng Zhang and Stein T. Holden has been published in the PLOS ONE journal, April 2023.
The report on "Land Tenure and Social Relations in Matrilineal and Uxorilocal Societies in Malawi" written by Daimon Kambewa, Erling Berge, Stanley Khaila, Alister Munthali, and Henrik Wiig is now published as a CLTS Report, March 2023.
The paper "Religion, beliefs, trust, and COVID vaccination behavior among rural people in Malawi" written by Stein T. Holden, Sarah Tione, Mesfin Tilahun, and Samson Katengeza is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, January 2023.
The paper "Can climate shocks make vulnerable subjects more willing to take risks?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, January 2023.
The paper "Price and Hedonic Heterogeneity Measures in Local Housing Markets" written by Dag Einar Sommervoll is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, January 2023.
The thesis on "Effects of land consolidation in Cyprus" written by Fjeldstad, Kjersti Andrea Bråge is now published as a CLTS Master Theses, January 2023.
The paper "How can “tragedies of the commons” be resolved? Social dilemmas and legislation" written by Erling Berge is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, January 2023.
The book "Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka" edited by Jonna P. Estudillo, Yoko Kijima, Tetsushi Sonobe has been published in Springer Link.
The paper on "Evolution of farm-level crop diversification and response to rainfall shocks in smallholder farming: Evidence from Malawi and Tanzania" written by Clifton Makate, Arild Angelsen, Stein Terje Holden and Ola Tveitereid Westengen has been published in the Ecological Economics journal, March 2023.
The paper "Fifty Years of Research on Land Tenure Policies and Land Markets: What Are the Major Lessons?" written by Stein T. Holden has been published as Chapter 9 in Agricultural Development in Asia and Africa: Essays in Honor of Keijiro Otsuka, edited by Jonna P. Estudillo, Yoko Kijima, Tetsushi Sonobe and published in Springer Link.
The paper on "Anthropogenic Land Use Change and Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa" written by Sarah Ephrida Tione, Dorothy Nampanzira, Gloria Nalule, Olivier Kashongwe and Samson Pilanazo Katengeza has been published in the Sustainability journal, November 2022.
The paper on "Coming of Age: Renovation Premiums in Housing Markets" written by Mari O. Mamre and Dag Einar Sommervoll has been published in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, August 2022.
The paper on "House price prediction with gradient boosted trees under different loss functions" written by Anders Hjort, Johan Pensar, Ida Scheel & Dag Einar Sommervoll has been published in the Journal of Property Research, April 2022.
The paper on "The Volatility of Housing Prices: Do Different Types of Financial Intermediaries Affect Housing Market Cycles Differently?" written by Julia Braun, Hans-Peter Burghof, Julius Langer and Dag Einar Sommervoll has been published in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, June 2022.
The paper on "Survival- versus opportunity-driven environmental reliance: Evidence from Uganda" written by Esther Kemigisha, Arild Angelsen, Fred Babweteera, and Johnny Mugisha has been published in the Journal of Forest Policy and Economics, February 2022.
The paper on "How do REDD+ projects contribute to the goals of the Paris Agreement?" written by Stibniati S Atmadja, Amy E Duchelle, Veronique De Sy, Vivi Selviana, Mella Komalasari, Erin O Sills and Arild Angelsen has been published in the Environmental Research Letters, March 2022.
The paper on "Inequality and enforcement in group-based PES: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment" written by Julia Naime, Arild Angelsen, Adriana Molina, Cauê Carrilho, Vivi Selviana, Gabriela Demarchi, Amy E. Duchelle and Christopher Martius has been published in the Global Environmental Change journal, May 2022.
The paper on "Slowing deforestation in Indonesia follows declining oil palm expansion and lower oil prices" written by David LA Gaveau, Bruno Locatelli, Mohammad A Salim, Timer Manurung, Adrià Descals, Arild Angelsen, Erik Meijaard and Douglas Sheil has been published in the PLOS ONE journal, March 2022.
The paper "Numeracy skills learning of children in Africa: - Are disabled children lagging behind?" written by Huafeng Zhang and Stein T. Holden was presented at the Annual Conference of Norwegian Economists (Forskermøetet), Stavanger University, 25-26. October, 2022.
The paper "Numeracy skills learning of children in Africa: - Are disabled children lagging behind?" written by Huafeng Zhang and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, November 2022.
The paper "The Predictive Power of Luck: Luck and Risk-Taking in a Repeated Risky Investment Game" written by Stein T. Holden, Sarah Tione, Samson Katengeza and Mesfin Tilahun, was presented at the Annual Conference of Norwegian Economists (Forskermøtet), Stavanger University, 25-26. October, 2022.
The paper on "The economic value of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest ecosystem services: A meta-analysis of the Brazilian literature" written by Roy Brouwer, Rute Pinto, Anders Dugstad and Ståle Navrud has been published in the PLOS ONE journal, October 2022.
The paper on "Are risk preferences explaining gender differences in investment behavior?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun has been published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, October 2022.
The paper "The Predictive Power of Luck: Luck and Risk-Taking in a Repeated Risky Investment Game" written by Stein T. Holden, Sarah Tione, Samson Katengeza and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, October 2022.
The paper "How are social preferences of youth related to their motivation to invest in environmental conservation (local public goods)?" written by Stein T. Holden & Mesfin Tilahun has been published as Chapter 4 in Behavioural Economics and the Environment Research Companion, edited by Alessandro Bucciol, Alessandro Tavoni, and Marcella Veronesi.
A paper on "Exploration of farm mechanization among smallholder farmers: Evidence from Indian states of Haryana and Bihar" written by Aryal JP, Holden ST, Bhattarai M., and Rahut DB, was presented at the Asian Economic Development Conference 2022 , under the theme 'Inclusive, sustainable recovery in Asia and the Pacific, 14-15 July 2022, organized by the Asian Development Bank, in Tokyo, Japan.
The paper on "Crops in crises: Shocks shape smallholders' diversification in rural Ethiopia" written by Clifton Makate, Arild Angelsen, Stein Terje Holden, and Ola Tveitereid Westengen has been published in the World Development journal, August 2022.
The paper on "Mental Zooming as Variable Asset Integration in Inter-Temporal Choice" written by Stein T. Holden, Dag Einar Sommervoll and Mesfin Tilahun has been published in the International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics, July 2022.
The paper "Religion, perceptions, and behavior during the corona/COVID-19 pandemic among university students in Malawi" written by Stein T. Holden, Samson Katengeza, Sarah Tione and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, June 2022.
The paper "Knowledge, beliefs, perceptions, and behavior related to the corona (COVID-19) pandemic among university students in Malawi" written by Stein T. Holden, Samson Katengeza, Sarah Tione and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, June 2022.
The paper "The Corona pandemic among university students in Malawi" written by Stein T. Holden, Samson Katengeza, Sarah Tione, Mesfin Tilahun, Ørjan Berg, Patrick Chimseu, and Blessings Njinga is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, April 2022.
The paper "Can the risky investment game predict real world investments?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, February 2022.
The paper "Disability types and children’s schooling in Africa" written by Huafeng Zhang and Stein Terje Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, February 2022.
The paper "Is diminishing impatience in time-dated risky prospects explained by probability weighting?" written by Stein T. Holden, Mesfin Tilahun, and Dag E. Sommervoll is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, February 2022.
The paper "Gender differences in investments and risk preferences" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, January 2022.
The paper "On trust in Malawi: Behaviour in trust games in 18 Malawian villages in 2007" written by Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Erling Berge, Sverre Bjørnstad, and Henrik Wiig is now published as a CLTS Working Paper, January 2022.
The paper "Beyond Ostrom: Randomized Experiment of the Impact of Individualized Tree Rights on Forest Management in Ethiopia" written by Ryo Takahashi, Keijiro Otsuka, Mesfin Tilahun, Emiru Birhane and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "The Gender Dimensions of Land Tenure Reforms in Ethiopia 1995-2020." written by Stein T.Holden has been published as Chapter 12 in CABI open access book titled "Land Governance and Gender: The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy" edited by Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, December 2021.
The paper on "Hedging Home Equity Risk: Examination of a Nobel Idea" written by Dag Einar Sommervoll and Stave Swidler has been published in the Journal of Housing Research, October 2021.
The paper on "Fair shares? Advancing land economics through cooperative game theory" written by Yiquan Gu, Alexander Lord, Anders Eika, Perrine Dethierd, D. Ary A.Samsura, Berit Irene Nordahl, Dag EinarSommervoll, Erwin van der Krabben, and Jean-Marie Halleux has been published in the Land Use Policy journal, July 2021.
The paper on "Mobile phones, leadership and gender in rural business groups" written by Stein T.Holden and Mesfin Tilahun has been published in the World Development Perspectives journal.
The paper on "Non-Convex Transaction Costs and Land Rental Market Participation in Malawi" written by Sarah E. Tione and Stein T. Holden has been published in the Land Economics journal.
The paper on "Preferences, trust, and performance in youth business groups" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun has been published in the journal PLOS ONE.
At the International Conference of Agricultural Economist (ICAE) 31st Triennial virtual meeting held from 17th to 31st August 2021, three CLTS related papers were presented.
The paper "How Large is the Endowment Effect in the Risky Investment Game?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper on "Rising land commodification in sub-Saharan Africa: Reconciling the diverse narratives" written by Thomas S. Jayne, Jordan Chamberlin, Stein Holden, Hosaena Ghebru, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, and Frank Place has been published in the Global Food Security journal.
The paper on "Can rainfall shocks enhance access to rented land? Evidence from Malawi" written by Sarah E. Tione and Stein T. Holden has been published in the Agricultural Economics journal.
The paper on "Implications of food-for-work programs for consumption and production diversity: Evidence from the Tigray Region of Ethiopia" written by Bethelhem Legesse Debela, Gerald E. Shively and Stein T. Holden has been published in the Agricultural and Food Economics journal.
CLTS had published a land tenure related PhD Dissertation completed at the Department of Property and Law-Faculty of Landscape and Society (LANDSAM), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
The paper "How are social preferences of youth related to their motivation to invest in environmental conservation (local public goods)?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper on "Endowment effects in the risky investment game?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun has been published in the journal Theory and Decision.
The paper on "Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? Evidence from northern Ethiopia" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun has been published in Land Use Policy journal.
Presentation at an IFPRI virtual brown bag seminar held on 21st April 2021 by Dr Sarah Tione, a Doctoral Fellow with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and CLTS member.
The paper on "Adoption analysis of agricultural technologies in the semiarid northern Ethiopia: a panel data analysis" written by Menasbo Gebru, Stein T. Holden and Frode Alfnes has been published in the Agricultural and Food Economics journal.
The paper "Capacity building for climate-smart natural resource management and policy in Malawi and Ethiopia" written by Tilahun, M., Holden, S. T., and Mangisoni, J. has been published as Chapter 7 in African Minds open access book titled "Sharing Knowledge Transforming Societies. The Norhed Programme 2013-2020" edited by T. Halvorsen, K. S. Orgeret and R. Krøvel
The paper on "Productivity impact of drought tolerant maize varieties under rainfall stress in Malawi: A continuous treatment approach" written by Samson P. Katengeza and Stein T. Holden has been published in the Agricultural Economics journal.
The paper "Land consolidation cases relating to grazing arrangements" written by Per Kåre Sky and Helén Elisabeth Elvestad is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "From rural to urban land consolidation– An analysis of recent changes in Norwegian land consolidation" written by Helén Elisabeth Elvestad and Per Kåre Sky is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Magnitude Effects and Utility Curvature in Inter-temporal Choice" written by Stein T. Holden, Mesfin Tilahun and Dag Einar Sommervoll is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper on "Agricultural Resources and Trade Strategies: Response to Falling Land-to-Labor Ratios in Malawi" written by Sarah Ephrida Tione has been published in the Land Journal.
The report on "MALAWIAN LAND TENURE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: Behaviour in trust games in 18 Malawian villages in 2007" written by Erling Berge, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold, Henrik Wiig, Sverre Bjørnstad, Daimon Kambewa, Alister Munthali is now published as a CLTS Report.
The paper "Mental Zooming as Variable Asset Integration in Inter-temporal Choice" written by Stein T. Holden, Dag Einar Sommervoll and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper is part of the NORGLOBAL2 project "Youth Business Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model", and it aims at providing a better basis for understanding investment decisions by youth group members.
The paper "Impact of Land Rental Market Participation on Smallholder Farmers’ Commercialization: Panel Data Evidence from Northern Ethiopia" written by Menasbo Gebru Tesfay has been published in the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
The paper "Can rainfall shocks enhance access to rented land? Evidence from Malawi" written by Sarah E. Tione and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Policies for Improved Food Security: The Roles of Land Tenure Policies and Land Markets" written by Stein T. Holden has been published in Springer, Cham open access book titled "The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security" and edited by Gomez y Paloma S., Riesgo L., Louhichi K.
Stein Holden has published a review of the book "Svein Ege (Ed.): Land Tenure Security. State-Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia" in Norsk Antropologisk tidsskrift.
The book "Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa" edited by Bal Ram Singh, Andy Safalaoh, Nyambilila A. Amuri, Lars Olav Eik, Bishal K. Sitaula and Rattan Lal has been published in Springer, Cham.
The paper "Impact of Farm Input Subsidies Vis-à-Vis Climate-Smart Technologies on Maize Productivity: A Tale of Smallholder Farmers in Malawi" written by Katengeza S.P. has been published In: Singh B., Safalaoh A., Amuri N., Eik L., Sitaula B., Lal R. (eds) Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa. Springer, Cham
The paper "Pay, Talk or 'Whip' to Conserve Forests: Framed Field Experiments in Zambia" written by Ngoma, Hambulo, Amare T Hailu, Stephen Kabwe and Arild Angelsen has been published in World Development.
The paper "Migration, agriculture and forest cover change in rural Guatemala and Chiapas" written by Angelsen, Arild; Aguilar-Støen, Mariel; Ainembabazi, John Herbert; Castellanos, Edwin; Taylor, Matthew has been published in Land.
The paper "Adoption of agricultural technologies in the semi-arid northern Ethiopia: A Panel Data Analysis" written by Menasbo Gebru, Stein T. Holden and Frode Alfnes is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun has been published in World Development.
A Pre-Analysis Plan with the title "The effects of gender empowerment training on within-group gender differences in performance and overall group performance" by Stein T. Holden, Mesfin Tilahun, Tobias Vorlaufer and Stefanie Engel is published as a dated CLTS Report on February 21, 2020.
The paper "Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper. The paper is a preprint of an upcoming paper forthcoming in the journal World Development.
The paper "Urban proximity, demand for land and land shadow prices in Malawi" written by Sarah E. Tione and Stein T. Holden has been published in Land Use Policy.
The paper "Endowment Effects and Loss Aversion in the Risky Investment Game" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Transaction costs and land rental market participation in Malawi" written by Sarah E. Tione and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "How Do Social Preferences and Norms of Reciprocity affect Generalized and Particularized Trust?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Are land-poor youth accessing rented land? Evidence from northern Ethiopia " written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Gender Assessment of Youth Business Groups: Female Participation and Characteristics" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Youth Business Groups and Leadership: - Group Leader and Member Survey Statistics" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Variation in Output Shares and Endogenous Matching in Land Rental Contracts: Evidence from Ethiopia" written by Desta B. Gebrehiwot and Stein T. Holden has been published in Journal of Agricultural Economics.
The paper "How related are risk preferences and time preferences?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Learning from man or machine: Spatial fixed effects in urban econometrics" written by Åvald Sommervoll and Dag Einar Sommervoll has been published in the Regional Science and Urban Economics.
The paper "The Devil is in the Details: Risk Preferences, Choice List Design, and Measurement Error" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Urban proximity, demand for land and land prices in Malawi" written by Sarah E. Tione and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Does population pressure induce farm intensification? empirical evidence from Tigrai Region, Ethiopia" written by Muuz Hadush, Stein T. Holden, Mesfin Tilahun has been published in the Journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economics.
The paper "Tenants’ land access in the rental market: evidence from northern Ethiopia" written by Menasbo Gebru, Stein T. Holden, Mesfin Tilahun has been published in the Journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economics.
The paper "Exchange asymmetries in productive assets: Tools, fertilizer or cash?" written by Stein T. Holden and Sosina Bezu will be published in World Development.
The paper "Land rental markets and rural poverty dynamics in Northern Ethiopia: Panel data evidence using survival models" written by Hosaena Ghebru and Stein T. Holden har been published in the Rewiew of Development Economics.
The paper "Use of Integrated Soil Fertility Management Technologies in Malawi: Impact of Dry Spells Exposure" written by Samson P. Katengeza, Stein T. Holden and Monica Fisher will be published in the Journal of Ecological Economics in February 2019.
Stein T. Holden presented papers with the title "Land rental as a complementary income source for land-poor youth" and "Probability Weighting and Fertilizer Use in a State-Contingent Framework" written together with John Quiggin at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economics (ICAE) in Vancouver, USA, 28. July - 2. August. He has also presented the paper with the title "The Impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on Fertilizer Adoption by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Tigray, Northern Ethiopia" written together with Girma Berhe.
Thomas S. Jayne, professor at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, will hold presentation on the topic of "The Rise of Medium-Scale Farms in Africa: Causes and Consequences of Changing Farm Size Distributions" on the 28th of August, at 09.00-10.00, 4th floor of Tower Building, lunch room of School of Economics and Business.
The paper "Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa" written by Stein T. Holden has been published in the Global Food Security.
The paper "Adoption of Drought Tolerant Maize Varieties under Rainfall Stress in Malawi" written by Samson P. Katengeza, Stein T. Holden and Rodney W. Lunduka has been published in the Journal of Agricultural Economics.
The paper "Land rental as a complementary income source for land-poor youth" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
Stein T. Holden will present paper with the title "Gender Differences in Risk Tolerance, Trust and Trustworthiness: Are They Related?" written together with Mesfin Tilahun at the Nordic Conference on Development Economics 2018 at Aalto University School of Business, Helsinki, Finland, 11.-12. June.
Håvard Steinsholt, associate professor at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Matthew Hoffman, assistant professor at University of Southern Maine and Daisaku Shimada, associate professor at Fukuoka Women's University, will hold presentations on the topic of "Commons in Japan, Scotland and Norway" on the 18th of June, at 09:00-13:00, in Clock Building, VIP room.
The paper "Gender Digital Divide and Youth Business Group Leadership" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Awareness and adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi: what difference can farmer-to-farmer extension make?" written by Monica Fisher, Stein T. Holden, Christian Thierfelder and Samson P. Katengeza has been published in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.
The paper "Learning from man or machine: Spatial aggregation and house price prediction" written by Dag Einar Sommervoll and Åvald Sommervoll is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Regional land variation in land renting and operational holding structure" written by Stein T. Holden, Geir-H. Strand, Erling Berge, Espen O. Sjaastad and Håvard Steinsholt has been published in the journal KART OG PLAN.
The paper "Gender Differences in Risk Tolerance, Trust and Trustworthiness: Are They Related?" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Variation in Output Shares and Endogenous Matching in Land Rental Contracts" written by Desta Brhanu and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Variation in Output Shares and Endogenous Matching in Land Rental Contracts" written by Desta Brhanu and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Food for Work and Diet Diversity in Ethiopia" written by Bethelhem Legesse Debela, Gerald E. Shively, Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The employment of young people in Ethiopia is a high priority for Ethiopian authorities, as this is also very important for political stability. Organizing young people in groups that establish sustainable enterprises has been an important measure.
The paper "Group Trust in Youth Business Groups: Influenced by Risk Tolerance and Expected Trustworthiness" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Defragmenting resource management on the Southeast Arm of Lake Malawi: Case of Fisheries" written by Maxon Ngochera, Steve Donda, Mafaniso Hara and Erling Berge is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Adoption of Soil Fertility Management Technologies in Malawi: Impact of Drought Exposure" written by Samson P. Katengeza, Stein T. Holden and Monica Fisher is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
Thanks to a unique combination of collective action, voluntary labour and the involvement of young people, the people of Tigray in northern Ethipia are restoring land on a massive scale. For its remarkable achievements under harsh conditions, Tigray’s policy was recognized with the Future Policy Gold Award 2017, awarded by the World Future Council in partnership with the UNCCD.
The paper "Can the land rental market facilitate smallholder commercialization? Evidence from northern Ethiopia" written by Menasbo Gebru, Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Policies for Improved Food Security: -The Roles of Land Tenure Policies and Land Markets" written by Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
Digitisation has drastically reduced the costs involved in registering owners of cultivated land. This has made large-scale land registration, which in particular strengthens women's rights in societies where they have a weak position, more relevant for developing countries.
Stein T. Holden, professor at the School of Economics and Business and Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, postdoctoral researcher at the School of Economics and Business gave presentations at the Nordic Conference in Development Economics on 12-13. June 2017 in Göteborg University.
The paper "Probability Weighting and Input Use Intensity in a State-Contingent Framework" written by Stein T. Holden and John Quiggin is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
Stein T. Holden, professor at the School of Economics and Business was a speaker at the 2017 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) that was held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK on 20th-21st april.
The paper "Adoption of CA technologies among Followers of Lead Farmers: How Strong is the Influence from Lead Farmers?" written by Monica Fisher, Stein T. Holden and Samson P. Katengeza is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
Paper written by Bethelhem L. Debela, Gerald Shively and Stein T. Holden with the title "Does Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program Improve Child Nutrition?" won the Third Poster Prize.
Stein T. Holden, professor at the School of Economics and Business and Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, were speakers at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington, DC.
Stein T. Holden, professor at the School of Economics and Business and Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, were speakers at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington, DC.
The paper "Is Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program Enhancing Dependency?" written by Girma Berhe Araya and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Adoption of Drought Tolerant Maize Varieties under Rainfall Stress in Malawi" written by Samson P. Katengeza, Stein T. Holden and Rodney W. Lunduka is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Land Distribution in Northern Ethiopia from 1998 to 2016: Gender-disaggregated, Spatial and Intertemporal Variation" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "The importance of Ostrom's design principles: Youth group performance in Northern Ethiopia" written by Stein T. Holden and Mesfin Tilahun is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "The adoption potential of Conservation Agriculture technologies in Malawi: A lead farmer promoter-adopter approach and assessment" written by Monica Fisher, Stein T. Holden, and Samson P. Katengeza is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, is co-author of Tachnical Report "Rwanda - State of Environment and Outlook Report 2015".
The paper "Land Valuation and Perceptions of Land Sales Prohibition in Ethiopia" written by Stein T. Holden and Sosina Bezu is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Reverse-Share-Tenancy and Agricultural Efficiency: Farm-Level Evidence from Ethiopia" written by Hosaena H. Ghebrua and Stein T. Holden has been published in the international journal African Economies.
The paper "Tools, Fertilizer or Cash? Exchange Asymmetries in Productive Assets" written by Stein T. Holden and Sosina Bezu is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Tools, Fertilizer or Cash? Exchange Asymmetries in Productive Assets" written by Stein T. Holden and Sosina Bezu is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The Master Theses series contains a selection of the master theses submitted by master students at NMBU with research topics that are relevant for CLTS.
Dag Einar Sommervoll, professor at the institute of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, will hold a presentation with the title “Getting more by asking for less: The efficacy of a strategically low ask in the real estate market” on the 2nd of November, at 12.00 in T452, Tower Building.
Paper "Does minimum tillage improve livelihood outcomes of smallholder farmers? A micro-econometric analysis from Zambia" to Hambulo Ngoma, PhD student at the School of Economics and Business, won the award for the best paper in the Graduate Students and Young Scholars' Case Study Competition.
The paper "Land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: Causal linkages and research gaps" written by Stein T. Holden and Hosaena Ghebru has been published in Global Food Security.
Stein T. Holden is one of the contributors to European Commission report on "Food and nutrition security and role of smallholder farms: challenges and opportunities".
The paper "Cattle sharing and rental contracts in an Agrarian economy: evidence from Ethiopia" written by Million A. Tadesse, Stein T. Holden, Ragnar A. Øygard and John McPeak been published in Agricultural Economics.
Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, is co-author of Technical Report "Rwanda - State of Environment and Outlook Report 2015".
The paper "Household-level preferences for mitigation of Prosopis juliflora invasion in the Afar region of Ethiopia: a contingent valuation" written by Mesfin Tilahun, Regina Birner and John Ilukorhas been published in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
The paper "Factors Affecting Differences in Livestock Asset Ownership Between Male- and Female-Headed Households in Northern Ethiopia" written by Bethelhem Legesse Debela has been published in European Journal of Development Research.
Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, was speaker at the launching of the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Africa Report.
The paper "Exploring technology use under climate risk and shocks through an experimental lens" written by Stein T. Holden and Nina Bruvik Westberg has been published in African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
New CLTS Research Report written by Stein T. Holden, Sosina Bezu and Mesfin Tilahun is based on the project between CLTS and UN-Habitat with the title "Research on Land Access and Youth Livelihood Opportunities in Southern Ethiopia".
The paper "Links between Tenure Security and Food Security in Poor Agrarian Economies: Causal Linkages and Policy Implications" written by Stein T. Holden and Hosaena Ghebru is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "New commons established by pooling, facilitated by the Land Consolidation Court. Norwegian experiences and examples" written by Hans Sevatdal is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Preferences for land sales legalization and land values in Ethiopia" written by Stein T. Holden, Sosina Bezu has been published in Land Use Policy.
The paper "Unlock the lock-in! Balance of rights in relation to betterment and compensation in Poland" written by Małgorzata Barbara Havel s now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "A Land Tenure Module for LSMS" written by Stein T. Holden, Daniel Ali, Klaus Deininger and Thea Hilhorst is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
Stein T. Holden will participate in the workshop organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome on the 16th -17th of December that has an objective of identifying specific groups that could collaborate on a new research project.
The paper "The Role of Land Certification in Reducing Gaps in Productivity between Male- and Female-Owned Farms in Rural Ethiopia" written by Mintewab Bezabih, Stein Holden and Andrea Mannberg has been published in the Journal of Development Studies.
David Adamson, senior research officer in natural resources at the University of Queensland, will hold a presentation on the 19th of November, at 12.15 in T452, Tower Building.
The paper "Subsidies promote use of drought tolerant maize varieties despite variable yield performance under smallholder environments in Malawi" written by Stein T. Holden and Monica Fisher has been published in Food Security.
The paper "Delineation of property rights as institutional foundations for urban land markets in transition" written by Małgorzata Barbara Havel has been published in Land Use Policy.
The paper "Rural Households' Demand for Frankincense Forest Conservation in Tigray, Ethiopia: A Contingent Valuation Analysis" written by Mesfin Tilahun, Liesbet Vranken, Bart Muys, Jozef Deckers, Kidanemariam Gebregziabher, Kindeya Gebrehiwot, Hans Bauer and Erik Mathijs been published in Journal of Land Degradation and Development.
Hambulo Ngoma, Brian P. Mulenga and Thomas S. Jayne have presented the poster with the title "Factors associated with farmers' use of minimum tillage in Zambia" on the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 11.-14. October.
Stein Holden held presentation with the title "Climate risk and state-contingent technology adoption: The role of risk preferences and probability weighting" on the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 11.-14. October.
Hosaena Ghebru and Stein Holden have presented the poster with the title "Links Between Food Security and Tenure Security: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia" on the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 11.-14. October.
The paper "Impact of membership in frankincense cooperative firms on rural income and poverty in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia" written by Mesfin Tilahun, Miet Maertens, Jozef Deckers, Bart Muys and Erik Mathijs been published in Forest Policy and Economics.
Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, is a lead co-author of the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative Report 2015 on "The Economics of Land Degradation in Africa".
The paper "Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Leakage or Synergy?" written by Philippe Delacote and Arild Angelsen has been published in Land Economics.
The paper "On the commons of developed industrialized countries" written by Erling Berge and Margaret Mckean has been published in the International Journal of the Commons.
The paper "On enclosure Norwegian style" written by Erling Berge and Anne Sigrid Haugset has been published in the International Journal of the Commons.
The paper "Does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program improve child nutrition?" written by Bethelhem Legesse Debela, Gerald Shively and Stein T. Holden has been published in the Journal of Food Security.
The paper "Street based self-employment: A poverty trap or a stepping stone for migrant youth in Africa?" written by Sosina Bezu and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Generosity and sharing among villagers:Do women give more?" written by Sosina Bezu and Stein T. Holden has been published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.
The paper "Risk Preferences, Shocks and Technology Adoption: Farmers’ Responses to Drought Risk" written by Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Enclosure Norwegian Style: the Withering Away of an Institution" written by Erling Berge and Anne Sigrid Haugset is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Technical Efficiency and Productivity Differential Effects of Land Right Certification: A Quasi-Experimental Evidence" written by Hosaena Ghebru and Stein T. Holden has been published in the Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture.
The paper "A tragedy of errors? Institutional dynamics and land tenure in Finnmark, Norway" written by Andrei Marin and Ivar Bjørklund has been published in the International Journal of the Commons.
The paper "Can Adoption of Improved Maize Varieties Help Smallholder Farmers Adapt to Drought? Evidence from Malawi" written by Stein T. Holden and Monica Fischer is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Joint Land Certification, Gendered Preferences, and Land-related Decisions: Are Wives Getting More Involved?" written by Stein T. Holden and Sosina Bezu is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
The paper "Economy-wide effects of input subsidies in Malawi: Market imperfections and household heterogeneity" written by Sofie Waage Skjeflo and Stein T. Holden is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.
