'Going home' in post-conflict Sierra Leone: Diamonds, agriculture and re-building rural livelihoods in the Eastern Province

Geography

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-78

  Binns, Tony ^a   Maconachie, Roy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; FOOD SECURITY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; POST-WAR; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EASTERN PROVINCE [SIERRA LEONE]; SIERRA LEONE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 14344251233     PISSN: 00167487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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