Customary land tenure saves the best arable agricultural land in the peri-urban zones of an African city: Gaborone, Botswana

Applied Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-46

  Nkambwe, Musisi ^a   Totolo, Otlogilwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Customary land tenure; Gaborone; Land conversion; Periurban

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; LAND RIGHTS; LAND USE PLANNING; PERIURBAN AREA; URBAN GROWTH;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; GABORONE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 13444267568     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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