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Conclusions: Agrarian change - a change for the better?

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Perceived wisdom suggests that rural communities with better access to markets, transportation and intensive agricultural systems are better fed and fiscally better off than those in the proximity of more isolated, forested landscapes (cf. Levang et al. 2005). But is this really the case?
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