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Norway
2026

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Economics and Finance

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52
Citations
11421
World Ranking
1259
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Stein T. Holden is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions also made within the social sciences. The scientist's work spans specialized subfields including soil science, general agricultural and biological sciences, safety research, economics and econometrics, and general decision sciences.

The researcher's publications address various themes, notably agricultural risk and resilience, land rights and reforms, agricultural innovations and practices, decision-making and behavioral economics, agriculture and land use in rural development, urban and rural development challenges, and issues relating to poverty, education, and child welfare.

Recent published papers illustrate the scope and relevance of Stein T. Holden's research activities, including:

  • Farm size and gender distribution of land: Evidence from Ethiopian land registry data, 2020, World Development
  • Rising land commodification in sub-Saharan Africa: Reconciling the diverse narratives, 2021, Global Food Security
  • Productivity impact of drought tolerant maize varieties under rainfall stress in Malawi: A continuous treatment approach, 2021, Agricultural Economics
  • Crops in crises: Shocks shape smallholders' diversification in rural Ethiopia, 2022, World Development
  • Urban proximity, demand for land and land shadow prices in Malawi, 2020, Land Use Policy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stein T. Holden include Mesfin Tilahun, Clifton Makate, Ola Tveitereid Westengen, Sarah E. Tione, and Samson P. Katengeza.

The scientist's work has been published in a range of academic venues, most notably the SSRN Electronic Journal, World Development, Agricultural and Food Economics, PLoS ONE, and Agricultural Economics.

Best Publications

  • Rural land certification in Ethiopia : process, initial impact, and implications for other African countries

    Klaus Deininger;Daniel Ayalew Ali;Stein Holden;Jaap Zevenbergen

  • Resource degradation and adoption of land conservation technologies in the Ethiopian Highlands: A case study in Andit Tid, North Shewa

    Bekele Shiferaw;Stein T. Holden

  • Poverty, market imperfections and time preferences: of relevance for environmental policy?

    Stein T. Holden;Bekele Shiferaw;Mette Wik

  • Impacts of Low-Cost Land Certification on Investment and Productivity

    Stein T. Holden;Klaus Deininger;Hosaena Ghebru

  • Soil Erosion and Smallholders' Conservation Decisions in the Highlands of Ethiopia

    Bekele Shiferaw;Stein Holden

  • Land redistribution, tenure insecurity, and intensity of production: a study of farm households in southern Ethiopia

    Stein T. Holden;Hailu Yohannes

  • Non-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands

    Stein Holden;Bekele Shiferaw;John Pender

  • Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture

    Sosina Bezu;Stein Holden

  • Tenure Insecurity, Gender, Low-cost Land Certification and Land Rental Market Participation in Ethiopia

    Stein T. Holden;Klaus Deininger;Hosaena Ghebru

  • The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa

    Stein Terje Holden;Keijiro Otsuka

  • Formalisation of land rights: Some empirical evidence from Mali, Niger and South Africa

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Stein Holden;Christian Lund;Espen Sjaastad

  • On the measurement of risk aversion from experimental data

    Mette Wik;Tewodros Aragie Kebede;Olvar Bergland;Stein T. Holden

  • Land degradation, drought and food security in a less‐favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands: a bio‐economic model with market imperfections

    Stein Holden;Bekele Shiferaw

  • Market Imperfections and Land Productivity in the Ethiopian Highlands

    Stein T. Holden;Bekele A. Shiferaw;John L. Pender

  • Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia

    Sosina Bezu;Christopher B. Barrett;Stein T. Holden

  • Land tenure reforms, tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies: Causal linkages and research gaps

    Stein T. Holden;Hosaena Ghebru

  • The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa : Impacts on Poverty, Equity, and Efficiency

    Stein T Holden;Keijiro Otsuka;Frank M Place

  • Farm-level benefits to investments for mitigating land degradation: empirical evidence from Ethiopia

    Bekele Shiferaw;Stein T. Holden

  • Policy instruments for sustainable land management: the case of highland smallholders in Ethiopia

    Bekele Shiferaw;Stein T. Holden

  • Do fertilizer subsidies crowd out organic manures? The case of Malawi.

    Stein Holden;Rodney Lunduka

  • Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia: Process, Initial Impact, and Implications for Other African Countries

    Daniel Ayalew Ali;Klaus Deininger;Stein T. Holden;Jaap Zevenbergen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bekele Shiferaw
Bekele Shiferaw World Bank Group
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
Keijiro Otsuka
Keijiro Otsuka Kobe University
Menale Kassie
Menale Kassie International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
John Pender
John Pender United States Department of Agriculture
John Quiggin
John Quiggin University of Queensland
Gerald Shively
Gerald Shively Purdue University West Lafayette
Gunnar Köhlin
Gunnar Köhlin University of Gothenburg
Christian Thierfelder
Christian Thierfelder International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

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