Land, Gender, and Food Security

Feminist Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-23

  Doss, Cheryl ^a   Summerfield, Gale ^b   Tsikata, Dzodzi ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

food security; Gender; land acquisitions; land grabs; land rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897888173     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2014.895021     Document Type: Editorial

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