Imageries of the contested concepts "land grabbing" and "land transactions": Implications for biofuels investments in Ghana

Geoforum

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 324-334

  Boamah, Festus ^a  

^a Department of Geography University of Bergen Post Box 7802 ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Biofuels investments; Contested concepts; Discourses; Ghana; Land grabbing; Land transaction

Indexed keywords

BIOFUEL; INVESTMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDOWNERSHIP; PROFITABILITY;

GHANA;

EID: 84901638239     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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