Smallholder Land Access in Post-War Northern Mozambique

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1379-1389

  Brück, Tilman ^a,b,c   Schindler, Kati ^a,b,c  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Households in Conflict Network (HiCN)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; agriculture; inequality; institutions; land access; Mozambique

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECONOMETRICS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LAND USE; LANDHOLDING; POST-WAR; SMALLHOLDER;

AFRICA; MOZAMBIQUE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67649444306     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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