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Rwanda's Land Policy Reform: Self-Employment Perspectives from a Case Study of Kimonyi Setor
Mizero, Mireille; Maniriho, Aristide; Bashangwa Mpozi, Bosco et al.
2021In Land, 10 (2/117), p. 1-17
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Keywords :
Land reform; Self-employment; own account business; Rural development; Off-farm jobs; Literacy skills; Rwanda
Abstract :
[en] Rwanda’s Land Policy Reform promotes agri-business and encourages self-employment. This paper aims to analyze the situation from a self-employment perspective when dealing with ex-propriation risk in rural areas. In this study, we conducted a structured survey addressed to 63 domestic units, complemented by focus groups of 47 participants from Kimonyi Sector. The bi-nary logistic regression analysis revealed that having job alternatives, men heading domestic units, literacy skills in English, and owning land lease certificates (p < 0.05) are positively and significantly related to awareness of land expropriation risk. The decision of the head of the domestic unit to practice the main activity under self-employment status is positively influenced by owning a land lease certificate, number of plots, and French skills, while skills in English and a domestic unit’s size have a positive and significant influence on involvement in a second activ-ity as self-employed. Information on expropriation risk has no significant effect on self-employment. The domestic unit survey revealed that 34.9% of the heads of domestic units only have one job, 47.6% have at least two jobs in their everyday life, 12.7% have a minimum of three jobs, and 4.8% are inactive. The focus group synthesis exposed the limits to self-employment ability and facilities.
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy
Author, co-author :
Mizero, Mireille ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Terra
Maniriho, Aristide  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Terra
Bashangwa Mpozi, Bosco;  Higher Institute of Development Techniques of Mulungu, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Karangwa, Antoine;  University of Rwanda > School of Agriculture and Food Sciences > College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medecine
Burny, Philippe ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Modélisation et développement
Lebailly, Philippe  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Modélisation et développement
Language :
English
Title :
Rwanda's Land Policy Reform: Self-Employment Perspectives from a Case Study of Kimonyi Setor
Publication date :
26 January 2021
Journal title :
Land
eISSN :
2073-445X
Publisher :
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland
Special issue title :
Special Issue Land Evaluation: Economic and Physical Assessments towards Sustainability
Volume :
10
Issue :
2/117
Pages :
1-17
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
ULiège - Université de Liège [BE]
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