Self-sufficiency or surplus: Conflicting local and national rural development goals in Cambodia

Land Use Policy

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 342-352

  Scheidel, Arnim ^a   Giampietro, Mario ^a,b   Ramos Martin, Jesús ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Economic land concessions; Land grabbing; Poverty reduction; Rural development

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR RELATIONS; LAND USE; MARGINALIZATION; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SMALLHOLDER;

CAMBODIA;

EID: 84877906496     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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