Delilah Griswold

Can you trust the 'farmer's voice'? It depends

Injecting "the farmer's voice" can be a powerful tool when weighing in on a contentious agricultural issue. However, the ways in which researchers collect the beliefs of farmers are often subject to bias which can limit the meaningfulness and accuracy of a study's claims about the farmer experience.

Monday, October 19, 2015
Delilah Griswold

Land tenure and agricultural efficiency: The limits of the land rental market

A new study finds that formal ownership of land fails to produce an efficient rental market, highlighting the limitations of this land reform strategy to increase land access in order to reduce farmland expansion into more vulnerable areas.

Monday, August 31, 2015
Delilah Griswold

With efficacy of property rights, function can be more important than form

New research on land tenure in China's agrarian provinces highlights the importance of evaluating property rights in context, dismissing the typical attributes used to compare insecure or communal versus secure or private systems. The study suggests that understanding the social credibility of land ownership structures is central to appreciating how well specific structures function in a given location.

Thursday, July 9, 2015
Delilah Griswold
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