Playing pool along the shores of Lake Victoria: Fishermen, careers and capital accumulation in the Ugandan Nile perch business

Africa

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 224-248

  Beuving, J Joost ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EXPORT; FISHING; FOOD MARKET; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

LATES NILOTICUS;

EID: 77952922444     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: 17500184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2010.0203     Document Type: Article

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