Women’s Land Rights in the Transition to Individualized Ownership: Implications for Tree‐Resource Management in Western Ghana*

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Economic development and cultural change

• Publication date

  2001-10-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Economics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/340011
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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