CHAPTER 2

Understanding Land Markets

Questions and Hypotheses

STEIN T. HOLDEN, KEIJIRO OTSUKA,

AND FRANK M. PLACE

imagehe understanding of land markets has multiple dimensions. Among these are the different thematic dimensions to land markets, such as the types of land-market transactions, the degree of access and participation, and the impacts of land markets on agricultural productivity, poverty, and natural resource management. Also is the dimension of spatial scale and the recognition that markets can be analyzed at mesoscales (e.g., at a village or even at a regional level) as well as at microscales (e.g., at a land-unit or even a household level). ...

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