Access to secure land plays a key role in the socio-economic development of agricultural households. Since 1998, large-scale land certification programs aimed at strengthening the land property rights of agricultural households in Ethiopia have been implemented across regions to varying degrees. Using a three-period, large-scale nationally representative panel dataset from Ethiopia, this paper investigates the importance of access to secure land property right in the form of land certification for household take-up of agricultural development interventions that aim to improve household agricultural productivity and sustainable land use at a community level. We studied the take-up of agricultural extension packages and participation in community level sustainable land and water management programs as outcome variables. To account for potential endogeneity in the allocation of certificates and other confounding factors, we applied different panel data methods including instrumental variable approach. We find that access to secure property rights have a positive and significant effect on household take-up agricultural development interventions: agricultural extension packages and sustainable land and water management interventions. Additionally, we find that land certificates significantly predict household adoption of chemical fertilizers.

获得有保障的土地在农业家庭的社会经济发展中发挥着关键作用。自1998年以来，旨在加强埃塞俄比亚农户土地产权的大规模土地认证项目已在不同地区实施。本文使用来自埃塞俄比亚的三个时期、具有全国代表性的大型面板数据集，研究了以土地认证的形式获得安全土地产权对于家庭采用旨在提高家庭农业生产力的农业发展干预措施的重要性和社区层面的可持续土地利用。我们研究了农业推广计划的采用和社区级可持续土地和水资源管理计划的参与作为结果变量。为了解释证书分配中的潜在内生性和其他混杂因素，我们应用了不同的面板数据方法，包括工具变量方法。我们发现获得有保障的产权对家庭接受农业发展干预措施具有积极而显着的影响：农业推广计划和可持续的土地和水资源管理干预措施。此外，我们发现土地证显着预测家庭采用化肥。农业推广一揽子计划和可持续的土地和水资源管理干预措施。此外，我们发现土地证显着预测家庭采用化肥。农业推广一揽子计划和可持续的土地和水资源管理干预措施。此外，我们发现土地证显着预测家庭采用化肥。