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Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste: no magic bullets Cover

Land access and livelihoods in post-conflict Timor-Leste: no magic bullets

International Journal of the Commons
Volume 9 (2015): Issue 2
By: Simon P.J. Batterbury,  Lisa Palmer,  Thomas Reuter,  Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho,  Balthasar Kehi and  Alex Cullen  
Open Access
|Sep 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.514 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
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Language: English
Published on: Sep 18, 2015
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Keywords:
Agrarian change,
customary land tenure,
East Timor,
land conflicts,
land privatisation,
rural livelihoods,
Timor-Leste

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