Rural households in Burkina Faso face serious problems of food security due to very low agricultural productivity. Our study investigates how the existing land property rights affect agricultural productivity in the country. Unlike previous studies, we use nationally representative data and take into account the indirect link between land property rights security and agricultural productivity. The Conditional Recursive Mixed Process (CMP) regression is used for this purpose. The results show that formal land rights positively and significantly affect land productivity. It is also found that formal education, non-farm activities, receiving cash transfers, and social capital affect land productivity. Our findings show evidence that land property rights matter for stimulating agricultural productivity, especially by motivating large-scale private land related-investments in Burkina Faso. However, it would be too early and somehow naïve to claim that the possession of a legal title is the best way to grant land tenure security in the current context of Burkina Faso, where land market imperfections are a non-negligible issue.

由于农业生产力极低，布基纳法索的农村家庭面临着严重的粮食安全问题。我们的研究调查了现有的土地产权如何影响该国的农业生产力。与以往的研究不同，我们使用了具有全国代表性的数据，并考虑了土地产权保障与农业生产力之间的间接联系。条件递归混合过程 (CMP) 回归用于此目的。结果表明，正式的土地权利对土地生产力有积极且显着的影响。研究还发现，正规教育、非农活动、接受现金转移和社会资本会影响土地生产力。我们的研究结果表明，土地产权对于刺激农业生产力很重要，特别是通过激励布基纳法索的大规模私人土地相关投资。然而，在布基纳法索目前的情况下，声称拥有合法所有权是授予土地使用权保障的最佳方式还为时过早，而且有些天真，土地市场的不完善是一个不可忽视的问题。