New development encounters: China and brazil in african agriculture

IDS Bulletin

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-19

  Scoones, Ian ^a   Cabral, Lídia ^a   Tugendhat, Henry ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INVESTMENT; NATIONAL POLITICS;

BRAZIL; CHINA; ETHIOPIA; GHANA; MOZAMBIQUE; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84879586649     PISSN: 02655012     EISSN: 17595436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1759-5436.12038     Document Type: Article

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