Contrasting land tenures: Subsistence agriculture versus urban expansion on the rural-urban fringe of Gaborone, Botswana

International Development Planning Review

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-405

  Nkambwe, Musisi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL CITY; LAND TENURE; LAND USE PLANNING; RURAL PLANNING; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; GABORONE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 13444307719     PISSN: 14746743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3828/idpr.25.4.5     Document Type: Article

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