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.

The paper "Bounded awareness and anomalies in intertemporal choice: Zooming in Google Earth as both metaphor and model" written by Stein T. Holden and John Quiggin has been published in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty.

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.

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 "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.

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 Holden has contributed to a new initiative by the World Bank to promote better land governance in Malawi. One of the outcomes of this is now a World Bank Policy Research Paper with the title "Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi's customary tenure systems" written together with Klaus W. Deininger and Fang Xia.

Stein T. Holden presented paper with the title "Bounded awareness and anomalies in intertemporal choice: Google Earth as metaphor and model" written together with John Quiggin at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists at Oslo Business School, 3. - 4. January.

The paper "Demand for a labor-based drought insurance scheme in Ethiopia: a stated choice experiment approach" written by Million A. Tadesse, Frode Alfnes, Olaf Erenstein, Stein T. Holden has been published in Agricultural Economics.

Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye has been promoted to Associate Professor at Mekelle University.

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 Master Theses series contains a selection of the master theses submitted by master students at NMBU with research topics that are relevant for CLTS.

Land Rental Project Workshop took place in Addis Ababa on the 110th-11th of December.

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 "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 "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.

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.

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.

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.

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 "Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Leakage or Synergy?" written by Philippe Delacote and Arild Angelsen has been published in Land Economics.

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 "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.

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.

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.

Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, was speaker at the NORHED conference in Oslo.

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.

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 "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 "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.

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.

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.

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 "Of urban commons" written by Erling Berge is now published as a CLTS Working Paper.

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.

Stein T. Holden held an invited plenary talk with the title "A Land Tenure Module for LSMS" in Washington DC, March 15th.

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.

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.

The paper "" written by Eerling 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 "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 "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 "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 "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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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 "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.

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 "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 "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.

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".

Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye, post doc reasearcher at the School of Economics and Business, was speaker at the NORHED conference in Oslo.

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 "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 "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 "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.

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 "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.

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.