- Title
- The impact of property rights to water resources on smallholder development in the Kat River valley
- Creator
- Rantlo, Montoeli A, Fraser, Gavin C G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473066
- Identifier
- vital:77603
- Description
- Property rights are social institutions that define and delimit the range of privileges granted to individuals of specific resources, such as land and water. They are the authority to determine different forms of control over resources thus determining the use, benefits and costs resulting from resource use. That is, they clearly specify who can use the resources, who can capture the benefits from the resources, and who should incur costs of any socially harmful impact resulting from the use of a resource. In order to be efficient property rights must be clearly defined by the administering institutions such as state, law and custom. They must be accepted, understood and respected by all the involved individuals and should be enforceable. The property rights influence the behaviour of individuals hence the impact on economic performance and development. The paper has attempted to determine how the situation of property rights to water resources affected the development of smallholders in the Kat River Valley. To capture data, a questionnaire was administered through face-to-face interviews. Institutional analysis and ANOVA were used for descriptive analysis to describe the property rights situation, security of property rights and the impact of property rights on the development of smallholder farming. The results showed that individual land rights holders have secure rights to water resources while communal smallholders and farmers on the invaded state land have insecure rights to water resources. The results from institutional analysis showed that the situation of property rights to water resources negatively affected development of all smallholder farmers in the Kat River Valley. The security of property rights to Kat River should be improved.
- Format
- 7 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Time Journals of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, Rantlo, A.M. and Fraser, G., 2014. The impact of property rights to water resources on smallholder development in the Kat River valley. Time Journals of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences Vol. 2(9):145-152, Time Journals of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences volume 2 number 9 145 152 2014 2360-736X
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Fraser, Gavin C G (Prof)
RU Department of Economics and Economic History
SDG 08. Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 15. Life On Land
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