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. As part of the study, 669 households were interviewed across 12 Woredas in Amhara, Oromia, and SNNPR. Findings add to existing quantitative research by bringing in deeper qualitative beneficiary testimonies. 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. In line with existing academic literature, the most cited specific investments were in planting trees and longer-term crops.
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LIFT project completion report
This report explores the performance, impact, achievements, challenges and risks, and lessons learned from the LIFT programme.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Growth and investment, Land administration, Land rental, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Impact summary
Year produced: 2021
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
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
Increasing productivity through an innovative individual-based agricultural loan
This research summary explores how LIFT aids smallholder farmers through individual-based agricultural loans.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Land tenure and certification
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
Formalising land rental improves productivity and benefits vulnerable farmers
This research summary shows how LIFT helps to increase incomes for poor landholders and tenants by formalising Ethiopia’s land rental market.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
