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The diffusion of cattle ranching and deforestation : prospects for a hollow frontier in Mexico's Yucatán

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Opportunities and challenges to the sustainable development of cattle raising in Brazil, 1970-2005

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Contesting the commons : privatizing pastoral lands in Kenya

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