Conflicts of customary land tenure in rural Africa: is large-scale land acquisition a driver of ‘institutional innovation’?

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 971-988

  Bottazzi, Patrick ^a   Goguen, Adam ^b   Rist, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Sylvanus Koroma Campus   (Sierra Leone)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

agrarian conflicts; biofuel; land grabbing; land tenure; large scale land acquisition; Sierra Leone; West Africa

Indexed keywords

AGROINDUSTRY; BIOFUEL; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND TENURE; LANDOWNERSHIP; RURAL AREA;

SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84955115400     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2015.1119119     Document Type: Article

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