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Henk Breman, Desertification Control, The West African Case; Prevention is Better than Cure, Biotropica, Vol. 24, No. 2, Part B. Special Issue: OTS Silver Anniversary Symposium. Resource Availability and Tropical Ecosystems (Jun., 1992), pp. 328-334
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