During early phases of market development, rental transactions did not involve direct payments from current users to owners, although land users already had to pay land taxes. During liberalization, fixed rental contracts and sharecropping quickly gained importance (Deininger and Jin 2008). This situation should be of interest to future researchers who can consider the strong orientation toward efficiency and good performance of tenants (those who agreed to fixed rental contracts) on the one hand, while weighing the risks, vulnerability, and equity issues (sharecropping) on the other hand.