Topic · Land Rights and Reforms
Most cited papers in Land Rights and Reforms
What are the most cited papers in Land Rights and Reforms?
The most cited paper in Land Rights and Reforms is "The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide" (Sarah K. Lowder, Jakob Skoet, Terri L. Raney, 2016), with 2,013 citations. Next come "History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India" (1,287) and "A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia." (1,278).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 406 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide Sarah K. Lowder, Jakob Skoet, Terri L. Raney · World Development | 9 Feb 2016 | 2,013 |
| 2 | History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India Abhijit G. Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer · American Economic Review | Aug 2005 | 1,287 |
| 3 | A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. John Harriss, Bina Agarwal · The Economic Journal | May 1996 | 1,278 |
| 4 | Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains Daniel Curtis Nepstad, David Gibbs McGrath, Claudia M. Stickler et al. · Science | 5 Jun 2014 | 1,188 |
| 5 | Wealth, Weather Risk and the Composition and Profitability of Agricultural Investments Mark Richard Rosenzweig, Hans P. Binswanger · The Economic Journal | 1993 | 1,173 |
| 6 | Key issues of land use in China and implications for policy making Yansui Liu, Fang Fang, Yuheng Li · Land Use Policy | 27 May 2014 | 1,165 |
| 7 | The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana Markus Goldstein, Christopher Udry · Journal of Political Economy | Dec 2008 | 1,151 |
| 8 | Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation: Lessons from Economic Models Arild Angelsen, David Kaimowitz · The World Bank Research Observer | Feb 1999 | 1,016 |
| 9 | What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment Tania Murray Li · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 14 Jul 2014 | 954 |
| 10 | Behavioural and material determinants of production relations in agriculture Hans P. Binswanger, Mark Richard Rosenzweig · The Journal of Development Studies | Apr 1986 | 942 |
| 11 | What is an institution? John Rogers Searle · Journal of Institutional Economics | 27 May 2005 | 875 |
| 12 | Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis Saturnino M. Borras, Jennifer Conroy Franco · Journal of Agrarian Change | 13 Dec 2011 | 868 |
| 13 | Adoption of interrelated sustainable agricultural practices in smallholder systems: Evidence from rural Tanzania Menale B. Kassie, Moti Jaleta, Bekele A. Shiferaw et al. · Technological Forecasting and Social Change | 7 Sep 2012 | 796 |
| 14 | CONTRACTING FOR PROPERTY RIGHTS Gary D. Libecap · Princeton University Press eBooks | 7 Jul 2018 | 787 |
| 15 | Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South Jonathan D. Rigg · World Development | 5 Nov 2005 | 779 |
| 16 | Law and disorder in the postcolony* Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff · Social Anthropology | 30 Nov 2007 | 774 |
| 17 | Adoption of Multiple Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Ethiopia Hailemariam Teklewold, Menale B. Kassie, Bekele A. Shiferaw · Journal of Agricultural Economics | 21 Jan 2013 | 771 |
| 18 | Mapping the world's degraded lands Holly Gibbs, Jean-Marc Salmon · Applied Geography | 27 Dec 2014 | 746 |
| 19 | Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reduction in Uganda Frank B. Ellis, Godfrey Bahiigwa · World Development | 13 May 2003 | 697 |
| 20 | On Moral Hazard and Insurance Steven Shavell · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1979 | 695 |
| 21 | The Evolutionary Theory of Land Rights as Applied to Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Critical Assessment Jean‐Philippe Platteau · Development and Change | 1996 | 683 |
| 22 | The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon Elizabeth Barona, Navin Ramankutty, Glenn Graham Hyman et al. · Environmental Research Letters | Apr 2010 | 681 |
| 23 | Land tenure security and investment incentives: puzzling evidence from Burkina Faso Anne-Sophie Brasselle, Frédéric Gaspart, Jean‐Philippe Platteau · Journal of Development Economics | Apr 2002 | 674 |
| 24 | Inequality and Social Conflict Over Land in Africa Pauline E. Peters · Journal of Agrarian Change | 3 Jun 2004 | 673 |
| 25 | Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s Marcia Nunes Macedo, Ruth DeFries, Douglas C. Morton et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9 Jan 2012 | 662 |
| 26 | Sustainable Governance of Common-Pool Resources: Context, Methods, and Politics Arun Agrawal · Annual Review of Anthropology | Oct 2003 | 659 |
| 27 | Land pressures, the evolution of farming systems, and development strategies in Africa: A synthesis T. S. Jayne, Jordan Chamberlin, Derek Headey · Food Policy | 14 Jul 2014 | 630 |
| 28 | Global land and water grabbing Maria Cristina Rulli, Antonio Saviori, Paolo D’Odorico · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 Jan 2013 | 630 |
| 29 | Property Rights and Economic Development* Timothy Besley, Maitreesh Ghatak · Handbook of development economics | 2010 | 628 |
| 30 | The relation between farm size and farm productivity Gershon Feder · Journal of Development Economics | Aug 1985 | 623 |
| 31 | The State, Land System, and Land Development Processes in Contemporary China George C. S. Lin, Samuel P. S. Ho · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Jun 2005 | 610 |
| 32 | Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005 Thomas K. Rudel, Laura C. Schneider, María Teresa Uriarte et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Dec 2009 | 608 |
| 33 | Resistance, acquiescence or incorporation? An introduction to land grabbing and political reactions ‘from below’ Ruth Hall, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras et al. · The Journal of Peasant Studies | 12 May 2015 | 605 |
| 34 | Assessing farmland protection policy in China Erik Lichtenberg, Chengri Ding · Land Use Policy | 20 Apr 2007 | 603 |
| 35 | The properties of agroecosystems Gordon Conway · Agricultural Systems | 1987 | 587 |
| 36 | Land policy reform in China: assessment and prospects Chengri Ding · Land Use Policy | Apr 2003 | 586 |
| 37 | Land relations under unbearable stress: Rwanda caught in the Malthusian trap Catherine André, Jean‐Philippe Platteau · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 1998 | 585 |
| 38 | What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Alexander S. P. Pfaff · Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 1999 | 583 |
| 39 | Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China Hanan G. Jacoby, Li Guo, Scott Rozelle · American Economic Review | Nov 2002 | 578 |
| 40 | The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences Tasso Adamopoulos, Diego Restuccia · American Economic Review | 28 May 2014 | 569 |
| 41 | An empirical analysis of land property lawsuits and rainfalls Li-Chen Chou, Chung-Yuan Fu · SpringerPlus | 4 Jan 2016 | 564 |
| 42 | Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal Abhijit V. Banerjee, Paul Gertler, Maitreesh Ghatak · Journal of Political Economy | Apr 2002 | 559 |
| 43 | How High Are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya Esther Duflo, Michael R. Kremer, Jonathan Robinson · American Economic Review | Apr 2008 | 559 |
| 44 | Property and contract rights in autocracies and democracies Christopher K. Clague, Philip Keefer, Stephen Knack et al. · Journal of Economic Growth | Jun 1996 | 550 |
| 45 | Inequality and Insurgency Edward N. Muller, Mitchell A. Seligson · American Political Science Review | Jun 1987 | 549 |
| 46 | Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone Daron Acemoğlu, Tristan Reed, James A. Robinson · Journal of Political Economy | Apr 2014 | 534 |
| 47 | The Policy Analysis Matrix for Agricultural Development Eric Monke, Scott R. Pearson | 23 May 1989 | 529 |
| 48 | "Common Property" as a Concept in Natural Resources Policy * 1 S. V. Ciriacy‐Wantrup | 9 Apr 2019 | 519 |
| 49 | Natural resource degradation tendencies in Ethiopia: a review Simachew Bantigegn Wassie · ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH | 10 Nov 2020 | 510 |
| 50 | Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance Amitrajeet A. Batabyal · American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 25 Jan 2008 | 508 |
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