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Now that your land is my land…does it matter? A case study in Western India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2005

PRANAB MUKHOPADHYAY
PRANAB MUKHOPADHYAY
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Goa University, Goa-403206, India. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper examines the implications of tenancy legislation and privatization of community lands in Goa on the supply of local public goods for soil conservation. In the post-tenancy period our survey reveals an increasing number of farmers being affected by salinity ingress. These findings support the hypothesis that when community institutions break down, individual agents who become new resource owners do not have sufficient incentive to undertake supply of local public goods, which leads to a decline in productivity and affects long-term sustainability.

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Research Articles
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Environment and Development Economics , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 87 - 96
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The author would like to acknowledge Partha Dasgupta, Karl Goran-Maler, Jean Phillipe Platteau, David Starret, Alain de Janvry and two anonymous referees of this journal for comments. Research for this paper was supported by the South Asian Network for Development and Environment Economics (SANDEE). Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Beijer Research Seminar, Durban and at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste and participants' comments are gratefully acknowledged.