Whose security? Deepening social conflict over 'customary' land in the shadow of land tenure reform in Malawi

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 447-472

  Peters, Pauline E ^a   Kambewa, Daimon ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND REFORM; LAND TENURE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CONFLICT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; MALAWI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34547150616     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: 14697777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X07002704     Document Type: Article

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