Land Redistribution, Tenure Insecurity, and Intensity of Production: A Study of Farm Households in

ABSTRACT. This study analyzes the effects of the Ethiopian land redistribution policy on per-ceptions of tenure security and on the use of pur-chased farm inputs and planting of trees among households in Southern Ethiopia. The policy ap-pears to have caused a positive correlation be-tween farm size and tenure insecurity in some lo-cations, although there is a negative correlation in other sites. It had no negative effect on the probability of use or the intensity of use of pur-chased farm inputs, or on the probability of plant-ing perennials. Rather, it is resource poverty that appears to undermine intensification and invest-ment in trees. (JEL Q15) I