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Articles

Living on Other People’s Land; Impacts of Farm Conversions to Game Farming on Farm Dwellers’ Abilities to Access Land in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Pages 280-299 | Received 15 May 2018, Accepted 25 Nov 2018, Published online: 20 Mar 2019

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