- Sizing Up How Agriculture Connects to Deforestation🔍
- Agribusiness & Deforestation🔍
- Deforestation Linked to Agriculture🔍
- Agriculture Affects Deforestation Much More Than Most People ...🔍
- Up to half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn't put to use ...🔍
- Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation🔍
- Drivers of Deforestation🔍
- The Role Of Agriculture In Deforestation🔍
Deforestation Linked to Agriculture
In South America and Southeast Asia, commodity crops (tan on the map) have become the dominant driver of forest loss. Common commodity crops ...
Agribusiness & Deforestation - Greenpeace USA
Some 80% of global deforestation is a result of agricultural production, which is also the leading cause of habitat destruction. Animal agriculture ...
Deforestation Linked to Agriculture | Global Forest Review
The Deforestation Linked to Agriculture Global Forest Review indicator aims to monitor the role of specific commodities, namely cattle, ...
Agriculture Affects Deforestation Much More Than Most People ...
Cattle farming accounts for 80 percent of all deforested land across the Amazon, and 41 percent of all tropical deforestation worldwide.
COP26: Agricultural expansion drives almost 90 percent of global ...
Rome – Agricultural expansion drives almost 90 percent of global deforestation – an impact much greater than previously thought, the Food ...
Up to half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn't put to use ...
Although agriculture is vital to human survival, the research shows that it is also a major contributor to deforestation and consequently ...
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation | SEI
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation ... Halting deforestation will require a step-change in approach, and to be effective ...
Drivers of Deforestation - Our World in Data
Beef, soy, and palm oil are responsible for 60% of tropical deforestation. If we want to tackle deforestation, we also need to know what causes it. That allows ...
The Role Of Agriculture In Deforestation - ClimaTalk
Accounting for 70-90% of deforestation, global agriculture is the biggest driver of forest loss. Over half of all deforestation globally serves ...
Deforestation causes increases in temperatures and changes in the amount and distribution of rainfall. —generally creating a drier climate. These impacts can ...
How Animal Agriculture Is Accelerating Global Deforestation
Unfortunately, they are disappearing rapidly, and one of the main causes of this is the increasing demand for animal agriculture. — ...
Agriculture-linked Deforestation | Global Forest Watch Open Data ...
Provides annual agriculture-linked deforestation estimates for oil palm, soy, cattle, cocoa and coffee for the years 2001-2015 by administrative boundary.
Deforestation Causes - Revolution
In tropical areas, agriculture consumes the land. Farmland is therefore responsible for 80 percent of global deforestation. Corporations and local farmers take ...
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation ... A new study published in the leading journal, Science, has revealed that agriculture is by far the ...
Agriculture is the second main cause of forest conversion in the Amazon. In addition to deforestation, agricultural practices tend to cause significant soil ...
What are the biggest drivers of tropical deforestation?
But not all agriculture is equal. Globally, beef and soy are the leading drivers of tropical deforestation and conversion of other habitats. In South America, ...
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation
A new study published today in leading journal, Science, finds that between 90 and 99 percent of all deforestation in the tropics is driven ...
Agriculture drives more than 90% of tropical deforestation - WUR
This research finds that between 90 and 99 percent of all deforestation in the tropics is driven directly or indirectly by agriculture. Yet only ...
Beef production drives deforestation five times more than any other ...
Overall, beef is responsible for 36% of all agriculture-linked forest-replacement. The huge responsibility borne by the beef industry is due to ...
Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical ...
Although deforestation is driven by many interrelated processes (6), expanding agricultural land use—including cropland, pastures, and tree ...