The average small farmer in Amazonia Agent clears 1 ha of forest Source per year Frequency . [ DEFFUTURE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Land speculation is often driven by businessmen, officials, and local villagers who Agent seek to claim and clear forest land Source for sale Purpose . [ DEFCAMBODIA 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

One farmer Agent clears only a small area of land Source to practise shifting agriculture Purpose , however, the net impacts of many farmers is very damaging to the natural forests. [ according to DEFHISTORY 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Other work has focussed on working at the level of the ‘agents’ of deforestation under the argument that it is individual soy farmers, cattle ranchers, or small-scale farmers who Agent ultimately make decisions to clear forest Source . [ DEFFUTURE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Also in the 1990s, industrial soybean farmers Agent had arrived from outside Bolivia and rapidly Manner cleared large areas of forest east of the city Source . [ DEFTROPICAL 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Areas of primary forest that Source are cleared and replaced by timber plantations, or tree crops like oil palm, recover some level of carbon as planted trees grow to maturity although the average carbon stock over time in these systems is generally much lower than in primary forest. [ according to DEFPAPUA 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Any area of forest which has been degraded (by loggers) Source will never regenerate but will be cleared by humans or degrade to non-forest as a result of fire within a few years. [ DEFPAPUA 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Cambodia’s need is not to clear more forests Source for farming Purpose , but rather to intensify agriculture on existing farm lands. [ DEFCAMBODIA 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Madagascar has lost about half of its forest cover since 1953 with much regional variation, for instance most of the coastal lowland forests Source have been cleared. [ DEFBEETLES 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

During 1980–90, over 15 million hectares (ha) of tropical forest Source were cleared annually Frequency , and the rate of deforestation averaged 0.8% per year. [ according to DEFCOUNTRIES 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

No area of land from which Source the forest Patient has been cleared by any force or activity Cause will revert to forest within the foreseeable future. [ DEFPAPUA 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Tall secondary forest was the typical fallow vegetation Patient cleared for cultivation Purpose on 56 % of the land used by local farmers Expanse . [ DEFPAPUA 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]