African famine; land governance; land grabbing; land tenure security; management and organization; Decentralised; Institutional arrangement; Land governance; Land grabbing; Land tenure; Land tenure security; Management and organization; Root cause; Tenure systems; Food Science; Chemical Engineering (all)
Abstract :
[en] Natural calamities such as drought, famine, and climate change have collided to create a humanitarian crisis. For the Horn of Africa (HoA), famine is among the factors that have caused the worst historical damages to the individual countries. Man-made calamities such as decentralized agricultural, pastoral activities and forest clearing are also root causes for the damage. Institutional arrangements (IAs) on land tenure systems and agricultural land conversion (ALC) as a part of this problem will be analyzed in this paper. Poor IAs on land are considered the main cause of insecure land tenure which diminishes the productivity of agriculture in this region, and this, specifically in times of drought, exacerbates famine. Accordingly, the paper explores the idea that to what extent poor IAs on land tenure systems can explain the famine in the HoA. IAs on land comprise two main functions: land quality management and regulation and standard-setting for land utilization. The types of IAs for land often differ. The “optimal” arrangement depends on political, economic, social, climatic, geographical, and technical factors that together form a complex system of IAs.
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy
Author, co-author :
Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement ; Department of Geography, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium ; Research Group Climate Change and Security, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany ; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Burkart, Stefan; Tropical Forages Program, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia
Movahhed Moghaddam, Saghi; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Mahmoudi, Hossein; Department of Agroecology, Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Janečková, Kristina; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Sklenička, Petr; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Ho, Peter; Zhejiang University, School of Public Affairs, Department of Land Management, Hangzhou, China ; Department of International Development, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Teklemariam, Dereje; Department of Development Economics and Management, CFMD, Ethiopian Civil Service University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nadiri, Halil; Department of Business Administration, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Turkey
Language :
English
Title :
Famine in the Horn of Africa: Understanding Institutional Arrangements in Land Tenure Systems
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