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Forum: Land, politics and dynamics of agrarian change and resistance in North Africa

The social life of wheat and grapes: domestic land-grabbing as accumulation by dispossession in rural Egypt

La vie sociale du blé et du raisin : l'accaparement des terres domestiques en tant qu'accumulation par dépossession dans l'Egypte rurale

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