Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation
09 September 2022
A study associated estimates on tropical deforestation and agriculture from 2011 to 2015 and found that at least 90% of deforested land occurred in landscapes where agriculture drove forest loss, but only about half was converted into productive agricultural land.
Document Link https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm9267