Table of Contents

Reforming the leasing and the use of agricultural land in Fiji

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. INTRODUCTION – THE STUDY IN PERSPECTIVE

2. ARE ALTA RENTS FAIR?

3. INDENTURED LAND – THE CAUSE OF THE LANDOWNERS’ EXPLOITATION

4. THE EFFECTS OF THE CURRENT ALTA RENT FORMULA

• The Economic Consequences of ALTA

  The Equity Effects of ALTA
  The Efficiency Effects of ALTA

• The Sociological Effects of ALTA

• The Political Effects of ALTA

5. TOWARDS A SOLUTION TO THE LAND PROBLEMS

• Land and Property Rights

• Facilitating the Consummation of Mutually Beneficial Leasing Contracts

• Housing Former Tenants Whose Leases Have Expired

• Efficient Rental Formulas, Share-Cropping and the Problem of Sub-leasing

  Efficient rents – an example

6. LANDOWNERS TAKING BACK THEIR LAND

• Contract Farming

7. CONCLUSION – THE WAY FORWARD

APPENDIX 1

APPENDIX 2 : Mumias Sugar, Kenya - Booker McConnell

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