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For cattle farmers in the Brazilian Amazon, money can't buy happiness

  • Written by Rachael Garrett, Assistant Professor of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Boston University

Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that image. But, in fact, in this rainforested part of South America – home to the world’s most booming tropical agricultural region – ranching has been the most common land use for over four decades.

That’s a major environmental challenge for...

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