Power and property: commercialization, enclosures, and the transformation of agrarian relations in Ethiopia

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-104

  Makki, Fouad ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

agrarian change; commercialization; differentiation; dispossession; enclosures; Ethiopia

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; COMMERCIALIZATION; DIFFERENTIATION; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; SMALLHOLDER;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 84858193850     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2011.652620     Document Type: Article

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