Transitional rural landscapes: The role of small-scale commercial farming in former homelands of Post-Apartheid KwaZulu-Natal

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 87-102

  Agergaard, Jytte ^a   Birch Thomsen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Access to land; Land tenure; Land use; Role of agriculture; Rural urban linkages; South Africa

Indexed keywords

INCOME; LAND TENURE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; RURAL LANDSCAPE; SMALLHOLDER;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33947277353     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2006.10649559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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