What is a 'smallholder'? Class-analytic perspectives on small-scale farming and agrarian reform in South Africa

Reforming Land and Resource Use in South Africa: Impact on Livelihoods

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 86-111

  Cousins, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

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