Custom and commonage in Africa rethinking the orthodoxies

Land Use Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-52

  Alden Wily, Liz ^a  

^a NONE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Collateralization; Common property; Communal domain; Community based land tenure administration; Customary land tenure

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; DEVOLUTION; LAND TENURE; RURAL LANDSCAPE;

AFRICA;

EID: 34447286887     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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