Most New Farmland In Tropics Comes From Slashing Forests, Research Shows

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Most New Farmland in Tropics Comes from Slashing Forests, Research Shows

 

 

 

 

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2010) — Global agricultural expansion cut a wide swath through tropical forests during the 1980s and 1990s. More than half a million square miles of new farmland -- an area roughly the size of Alaska -- was created in the developing world between 1980 and 2000, of which over 80 percent was carved out of tropical forests, according to Stanford researcher Holly Gibbs.

 

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100903092515.htm