Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin.
Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Planters have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state. I show that the introduction of Para rubber had similar effects in the Benin region of colonialNigeria. Planters initially obta...
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Faculty of History (University of Oxford)
2010
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