Production Relations in Semi‐Arid African Agriculture
- 12 December 1991
- book chapter
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors depart from the presumption of densely populated economies and start from an isolated, land‐abundant, semi‐arid economy; they study its special institutional features and show how they change with changes in demographic factors and opportunities of external trade.Keywords
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