Cropland Abandonment in South African Smallholder Communal Lands: Land Cover Change (1950–2010) and Farmer Perceptions of Contributing Factors
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agricultural land abandonment; bush encroachment; deagrarianization; homelands; old fields; social–ecological systems; rural farmers;All these keywords.
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