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Deforestation risk due to commodity crop expansion in sub-Saharan Africa [1]

Rapid integration of global agricultural markets and subsequent cropland displacement in recent decades increased large-scale tropical deforestation in South America and Southeast Asia. Growing land scarcity and more stringent land use regulations in these regions could incentivize the offshoring of export-oriented commodity crops to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We assess the effects of domestic- and export-oriented agricultural expansion on deforestation in SSA in recent decades.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
04/04/2017
Elsa M Ordway [3], Gregory P Asner [4], Eric F Lambin [5]
Environmental Research Letters [6]
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Tags:
Agriculture [7], Deforestation [8], Africa [9], Tropical Forests [10], South America [11], Asia [12], Trade [13], Exports [14], Sierra Leone [15], Liberia [16], Cote D' Ivoire [17], Oil Palm [18], Cocoa [19], Land Use [20]

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