Land rental markets as a poverty reduction strategy

evidence from Southeast Asia

verfasst von

Eva Seewald, Samantha Baerthel, Trung Thanh Nguyen

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to investigate whether the participation in land rental markets helps to mitigate impacts by climate change on multidimensional poverty in Thailand and Vietnam. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use precipitation data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and self-reported shocks from the Thailand Vietnam Socio-Economic Panel (TVSEP) project to estimate climate change. Data from the TVSEP are also used to calculate a multidimensional poverty index (MPI). Fixed-effect logit panel regressions with interaction terms are implemented to analyze the above mentioned. Findings: The results show that land rental markets are used as mitigation strategies to climate change in Thailand and Vietnam. The participation in land rental markets also reduces multidimensional poverty. However, as a mitigation strategy, land rental markets are only successful in certain circumstances. Research limitations/implications: The results show that there is potential in using land rental markets as mitigation strategies to climate change. Further research is needed to better understand which adaptation strategies, besides land rental market participation, and which combinations of different adaptation strategies are successful to mitigate negative effects induced by climate change. Practical implications: The results show that there is potential in using land rental markets as mitigation strategies to climate change. Therefore, education in the participation in land rental markets and how to use them as a mitigation strategy can be a way to increase households' resilience to negative effects induced by climate change. Households make better decisions regarding their land when they are better informed on the functionality of land rental markets. Additionally, being better informed increases self-confidence to participate in land-rental markets. Originality/value: Land rental markets as a mitigation strategy to climate change rarely have been studied, and if so, mainly the effect of leasing land has been studied. Additionally, the authors implement new measures of poverty – a multidimensional view on poverty which provides new insights into who are the poor and how they can be lift out of poverty.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Umweltökonomik und Welthandel

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Journal of Economics and Development

Band

25

Seiten

102-119

Anzahl der Seiten

18

ISSN

1859-0020

Publikationsdatum

15.05.2023

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Betriebswirtschaft, Management und Rechnungswesen (sonstige), Bilanzierung, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ökonometrie und Finanzen (sonstige), Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 1 – Keine Armut, SDG 13 – Klimaschutzmaßnahmen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1108/JED-10-2022-0217 (Zugang: Offen)