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Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values?

The paper describes how complex co-ownership issues arising from estate-distribution can lead to uneconomic farm sizes or sometimes prevent farming activities altogether (through land-use conversion or land abandonment). Muslims in Malaysia rely almost exclusively on Fara’id laws in which ownershi...

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Main Author: Khalid, Haniza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IDOSI Publications 2014
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HD101 Land use
HT401 Rural groups. Rural sociology
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/39142/1/21.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.391422015-07-01T00:28:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39142/ Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values? Khalid, Haniza HD101 Land use HT401 Rural groups. Rural sociology The paper describes how complex co-ownership issues arising from estate-distribution can lead to uneconomic farm sizes or sometimes prevent farming activities altogether (through land-use conversion or land abandonment). Muslims in Malaysia rely almost exclusively on Fara’id laws in which ownership of all the deceased’s assets, including land, are apportioned to his beneficiaries. The interaction between the religiously-prescribed estate-distribution methods and the British-introduced land administration system may have indirectly contributed to undervaluation and fragmentation of rural land, mostly owned by Malay households. In the short run, the adverse effects can be seen in the uneconomic farm sizes and eventual conversion of farmland to other uses. In the long run, the trends may erode food production capabilities of the country as well as the Malay-Muslim total land holdings and therefore their economic wealth. Empirical evidence showed that paddy and vacant land, two types of land typically associated with Malays in Malaysia, are indeed valued lower than like-to-like land parcels in other categories. It is hoped that the paper can trigger more in-depth research to better public awareness and inform policy-improvement measures by the present land-related agencies and Muslim affairs authorities. IDOSI Publications 2014 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39142/1/21.pdf Khalid, Haniza (2014) Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values? Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 21 (9). pp. 1561-1569. ISSN 1990-9233 http://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr.htm
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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topic HD101 Land use
HT401 Rural groups. Rural sociology
spellingShingle HD101 Land use
HT401 Rural groups. Rural sociology
Khalid, Haniza
Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values?
description The paper describes how complex co-ownership issues arising from estate-distribution can lead to uneconomic farm sizes or sometimes prevent farming activities altogether (through land-use conversion or land abandonment). Muslims in Malaysia rely almost exclusively on Fara’id laws in which ownership of all the deceased’s assets, including land, are apportioned to his beneficiaries. The interaction between the religiously-prescribed estate-distribution methods and the British-introduced land administration system may have indirectly contributed to undervaluation and fragmentation of rural land, mostly owned by Malay households. In the short run, the adverse effects can be seen in the uneconomic farm sizes and eventual conversion of farmland to other uses. In the long run, the trends may erode food production capabilities of the country as well as the Malay-Muslim total land holdings and therefore their economic wealth. Empirical evidence showed that paddy and vacant land, two types of land typically associated with Malays in Malaysia, are indeed valued lower than like-to-like land parcels in other categories. It is hoped that the paper can trigger more in-depth research to better public awareness and inform policy-improvement measures by the present land-related agencies and Muslim affairs authorities.
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title Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values?
title_short Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values?
title_full Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values?
title_fullStr Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values?
title_full_unstemmed Do Malay estate-distribution practices contribute to lower land values?
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publisher IDOSI Publications
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/39142/1/21.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/39142/
http://www.idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr.htm
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