The Impact of Privatization on Land Inheritance among Samburu Pastoralists in Kenya

Development and Change

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1091-1116

  Lesorogol, Carolyn K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; COMPLEXITY; LAND RIGHTS; LANDOWNERSHIP; PASTORALISM; PRIVATIZATION;

KENYA; RIFT VALLEY; SAMBURU;

EID: 78649421448     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01668.x     Document Type: Article

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