Plantation rubber, land grabbing and social-property transformation in southern Laos

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1017-1037

  Kenney Lazar, Miles ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agrarian political economy; global land grabbing; Laos; resource commodity production

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY MARKET; LAND REFORM; LAND TENURE; PLANTATION; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RUBBER;

LAOS;

EID: 84861870577     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2012.674942     Document Type: Article

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