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Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico

International Journal of the Commons
Volume 17 (2023): Issue 1
By: Jaime Hoogesteger and  Federico Rivara  
Open Access
|Sep 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1199 | Journal eISSN: 1875-0281
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 13, 2022
Accepted on: Sep 21, 2023
Published on: Sep 29, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
commons,
land and water accumulation,
rural transformations,
migration,
ejido,
Mexico

© 2023 Jaime Hoogesteger, Federico Rivara, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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