Highest and best use? Access to urban land for semi-subsistence food production

Land Use Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 181-195

  Maxwell, Daniel G ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOOD PRODUCTION; LAND ACCESS; PLANNING POLICY; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN PLANNING;

UGANDA, KAMPALA;

EID: 0030480721     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0264-8377(96)00006-3     Document Type: Article

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