Increasing productivity through an innovative individual-based agricultural loan
This research summary looks at how access to finance allows smallholder farmers to purchase improved inputs and services, giving them the chance to graduate from subsistence farming and move up the productivity chain. It explores how LIFT aims to accelerate and magnify the investment, productivity and income effects of land certification for rural landholders in selected markets, including access to the financial market.
This summary relates to a full research study published by LIFT.
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LIFT baseline survey report
This report presents findings from a baseline survey conducted in area locations of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme coupled with matched control areas proximate to the LIFT programme area.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land administration, Land rental, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2016
EEU 2019 impact survey report
This report assesses the impact of LIFT’s Economic Empowerment Unit (EEU) on smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, focusing on improvements in two sectors: access to finance and the land rental system. Read a summary.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land administration, Land rental
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2019
The impact of the EEU access to finance and land rental interventions on rural Ethiopian households (third round data collection in 2020)
This survey report is the third in its series and provides findings from a panel of beneficiary households towards the end of the programme to measure the sustained impacts of LIFT’s rural land rental market and access to finance interventions.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land rental
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2020
Research paper on the impact of SLLC on tenure security, investment, and incomes
To strengthen previous quantitative findings on how tenure security translates into increased investments, productivity, and incomes, LIFT conducted a mixed methods study with a strong qualitative component in March 2021. We found strong evidence for tenure security effects resulting from SLLC, with significant reductions in disputes, improvements in perceived tenure security, and around one-fifth of households saying they had made additional investments because of SLLC.
Focus area: Research Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Growth and investment, Land rental, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report) Research study
Year produced: 2021
The impact of the EEU access to finance and land rental interventions on rural Ethiopian households (second round data collection in 2019)
This survey report provides findings of a survey to measure the impacts of LIFT’s rural land rental market and access to finance interventions.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land rental
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2019
