The politics of evidence: Methodologies for understanding the global land rush

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 469-483

  Scoones, Ian ^a   Hall, Ruth ^d   Borras, Saturnino M ^b   White, Ben ^b   Wolford, Wendy ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

data; land grabs; methods; politics of evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879998296     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2013.801341     Document Type: Editorial

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