Rezoned for business: How eco-tourism unlocked black farmland in eastern Zimbabwe

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 576-599

  Hughes, David McDermott ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CAMPFIRE; Community based natural resources management; Eco tourism; Evictions; Settler colonialism; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001135258     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0366.00019     Document Type: Article

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