Resettlement for Food Security’s Sake: Insights from a Malawi Land Reform Project
研究了马拉维南部一个重新安置项目是否长期改善了粮食安全，发现重新安置家庭因获得更多土地和多样化作物而提高了粮食安全，但男性户主家庭中女性的土地安全受到威胁。
In several African contexts, households are unable to enhance agricultural production due to land constraints. Few governments have explored the use of resettlement to alleviate land scarcity and facilitate rural-to-rural migration. We examine whether a resettlement project in southern Malawi improved food security in the long term. Our findings indicate resettled households achieved greater long-term food security, owing to additional land coupled with a more diversified crop portfolio. We also find the formalization of property rights improved land security for male and female household heads, but resettlement jeopardized the land security of women in maleheaded households. <i></i>