Land Governance Study on Leasing Reform, India
Country: India
Location within country: PAN India
Name of Client: Chandler Foundation
Description of Project: Study aims at assessing and analyzing the experience of states in terms of how the adoption of the Model Act has affected their agriculture and tenancy landscape. Taking the advantage of temporal trends available across state-wide spatial variations around legal, political, socio-cultural, economic, and institutional and agro ecological contexts, often known to influence tenancy relations. By undertaking a rapid assessment of the drivers, processes, impacts and issues around enactment and implementation of land leasing reform laws in the states, that have already gone ahead, study expects to generate quick policy learning and share these with policy makers of other states.
As part of the project, CLG had undertaken the following assignments.
Document the drivers and processes that trigger/facilitate enacting such reforms
Identifying drivers that led these states to adopt these reforms including if and how champions influence?
Legal Analysis of state Acts vis-à-vis the NITI Aayog’s Model Agricultural Land Leasing Act 2016 to generate insights into contextual adaptations
Analyze and document the institutions, innovations and issues around act implementation
Assess the processes and changes on ground and if there are any initial impacts
Existing tenancy arrangements and informalities and stakeholders’ opinion on reform
Levels of awareness and access to services among landowners and tenants
Types of farmers/tenants adopting early; effects of caste, class and gender
Observable impacts on production, diversification, aggregation, reverse tenancy, agribusiness, farm investments, conservation etc.