Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interactions between local tenure arrangements and government land reforms and the resulting implications for food production in rural Mali. We show that specific market-based land tenure arrangements in the study area emerged from a combination of urbanization pressures and government-designed land reform. We find that tenure security is linked to agricultural investment decisions, as also documented by previous studies. We likewise show that anxieties and ambiguities stemming from state-mandated land registration foster the emergence of monetized forms of access to collective land. These new market-based systems drive greater out-migration of productive community members, leading to labour shortages and weakening the social cohesion and mutual support systems upon which the most vulnerable depend. The findings show that top-down land reforms in rural Mali lead to disruptions of the social fabric, along with re-organizations of tenure systems to accommodate social norms and priorities. We illustrate how, in the context of centralized policy making with limited local consultation, community members resist cooperating and creatively search for alternatives to achieve their social goals. Empirical investigations of socio-institutional challenges such as land tenure arrangements are critical for effective scaling of agricultural innovations and sustainable food production.

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产权与错误：马里农村可持续粮食生产的土地改革


在城市化加速和人口增长的背景下，农业土地改革对于促进可持续土地管理和粮食生产投资至关重要。然而，关于如何在地方背景下实施国家层面设计的土地改革，特别是在它们与习惯权属制度相互作用时，文献中仍存在显着差距。我们采用制度拼凑的视角，探讨了当地保有权安排与政府土地改革之间的相互作用以及由此对马里农村粮食生产的影响。我们表明，研究地区特定的基于市场的土地权属安排是城市化压力和政府设计的土地改革的结合而产生的。我们发现，土地权保障与农业投资决策相关，之前的研究也证明了这一点。我们同样表明，国家规定的土地登记所产生的焦虑和模糊性促进了集体土地的货币化形式的出现。这些新的市场体系导致生产性社区成员更多地外流，导致劳动力短缺，削弱了最弱势群体赖以生存的社会凝聚力和相互支持体系。研究结果表明，马里农村地区自上而下的土地改革导致了社会结构的瓦解，同时也导致了土地权制度的重组，以适应社会规范和优先事项。我们说明了在集中决策和有限的地方协商的背景下，社区成员如何抵制合作并创造性地寻找替代方案来实现其社会目标。 对土地保有权安排等社会制度挑战的实证调查对于有效扩大农业创新和可持续粮食生产至关重要。