Access to rural land in Eastern Ethiopia: Mismatch between policy and reality

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-138

  Belay, Kassa ^a   Manig, Winfried ^b  

^a HARAMAYA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Access to land; Land borrowing; Land fragmentation; Land redistribution; Land renting; Land tenure; State ownership; Usufruct rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746096139     PISSN: 16129830     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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