Land in African Agrarian Systems - Hardcover

Bassett, Thomas J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299136108 ISBN 13: 9780299136109

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1993

Synopsis

Papers from the Center for African Studies 1988 spring symposium held at the U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, discuss flexibility and conflict in indigenous landholding systems, access to land and agrarian politics, and radical agrarian reform and agricultural performance. Among the specific topics: land use conflicts in pastoral development in Northern Cote d'Ivoire, producing politics and rice in Senegambia, and policy reforms and peasant producers in Mozambique. Paper edition (unseen), $26. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas J. Bassett is associate professor of geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has done extensive research in the Ivory Coast.  Donald E. Crummey is professor of African history and director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  He lived in Ethiopia for several years, teaching history at Haile Sellassie I University

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0299136108
• ISBN 13: 9780299136109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Crummey Donald E.