s:1475:"%T Assessing the relationships between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: a review of issues and empirical methods 
%A Place, F. 
%A Swallow, B.M. 
%X Studies of the relationships between property rights and t
echnology adoption are 
complicated in several respects.  First there are challenges involved in defining and 
measuring property rights and tenure security.  Second there are several different valid 
purposes for undertaking such studies and each purpose m
ay require a different approach.  
Third there are a number of difficult theoretical and empirical issues involved in such 
studies particularly in defining technology identifying key dimensions of property 
rights and accounting for the endogeneous deter
mination of property rights.
Through a synthesis and evaluation of previous studies this paper identifies key 
issues and develops guidelines for conducting research on the relationships between 
property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agri
culture.  It seeks to benefit 
researchers and policy makers wishing to undertake or interpret empirical research.  The 
topics addressed in the paper are: definition of scope and terms; key issues pertaining to 
the relationships between technology adoption 
and property rights variables; data 
collection and measurement issues; and analyses and interpretation of findings.  The 
primary target groups for this paper are researchers and policy analysts. 
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