Land tenure security: Revisiting and refining the concept for Sub-Saharan Africa's rural poor

Land Use Policy

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 231-238

  Simbizi, Marie Christine Dushimyimana ^a   Bennett, Rohan Mark ^a   Zevenbergen, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptualization; Land tenure security; Rural poor; Sub Saharan Africa; System approach

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; LAND TENURE; LAND USE PLANNING; POVERTY; RURAL AREA;

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 84883770541     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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