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Questions of land tenure and land reform and their impact on poor and vulnerable communities are of vital importance throughout Southern and Eastern Africa. From the vast literature on the subject, Robin Palmer has selected and summarised more than 300 recent books, articles, academic theses and reports of conferences and workshops. This survey includes studies of Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In addition to major sections on economic and legal issues, special section feature studies of Land and Pastoralism and Land and Women.

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This work is very useful. In other words it is much more than a series of abstracts: the key issues are clearly flagged and the literature is ranked...anyone starting work on land in Africa: read Palmer's introduction. Its worth a month in the library. Africa, Vol. 69, No. 2, 1999.

This work is very useful. In other words it is much more than a series of abstracts: the key issues are clearly flagged and the literature is ranked....anyone starting work on land in Africa: read Palmer's introduction. Its worth a month in the library. Africa, Vol. 69, No. 2, 1999.

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Robin Palmer is a global land rights policy specialist, with a particular focus on Southern and Eastern Africa and South-East Asia. He has undertaken consultancy work on land rights issues for DFID, Danida, the EU, the Legal Resources Centre of South Africa and Oxfam. He is currently working on global land grabbing and continues to manage Oxfam's prestigious Land Rights in Africa website.

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