
Agriculture: Primary Driver of Deforestation for 20 years
So let’s start with this mind blowing statistic brought to us by a recent study by Stanford researcher Holly Gibbs: Over the 20 years between 1980 and 2000, more than half a million square miles of new farmland was created in the developing world. Of this land, over 80% was carved out of tropical forests! So over these 20 years, rainforests were the primary source for new agricultural land ! So what have Gibbs and her team of researchers added […]
Categories: International Forest Issues, Uncategorized • Tags: agriculture, farms, food security, Forest, Rainforests