Land markets participation for migrants and natives in western of Madagascar: inclusion or exclusion and reallocation effects
Heriniaina Rakotomalala, Perrine Burnod, Emmanuelle Bouquet
Access to land is key for households who depend on agriculture for their livelihood and their food security. In Madagascar, there is a dearth of studies on how migrants access land through land markets (purchases and tenancy markets). This paper relies on qualitative and quantitative data carried out in 2018 to explore the functioning of land markets in a rural region in Western Madagascar. The focus on domestic in-migrants is a gateway to explore the effects of land markets in terms of inclusion and equity. Through econometric models, we reject the hypothesis that migrants are facing exclusion for accessing land through land markets, beyond a financial constraint that is also affecting natives, and that is mostly binding for purchases, not for tenancy market. Migrants who manage to overcome the barriers and to purchase land end up practically with the same average amount of land in property that the natives. For the natives, the local land purchase market also contributes to reduce land inequalities that are due to initial inheritance differences.
Event: World Bank Land Conference 2024 - Washington
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