Unravelling the dynamics of access to farmland in Tigray, Ethiopia: The 'emerging land market' revisited

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1018-1026

  Segers, Kaatje ^a   Dessein, Joost ^b,c   Hagberg, Sten ^d   Teklebirhan, Yikunoamlak ^e   Haile, Mitiku ^e   Deckers, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Informal land transfer; Land redistribution; Land rental market; Land use rights; Rural Ethiopia

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND MARKET; LAND USE PLANNING; PUBLIC ACCESS; RENTAL SECTOR; RURAL PLANNING; RURAL POLICY;

ETHIOPIA; TIGRAY;

EID: 77952883240     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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