Pastures of plenty?: Land rights and community-based agriculture in Peddie, a former homeland town in South Africa

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-20

  Thornton, Alec ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community based; Food security; Homeland; Inequality; Land use; Poverty alleviation; South Africa; Urban and peri urban agriculture

Indexed keywords

FOOD SECURITY; LAND RIGHTS; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDOWNERSHIP; PERIURBAN AREA; POST-APARTHEID; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN POLICY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 59049101826     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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