For example, conserving forests that Source would have otherwise have been deforested for agricultural land Purpose may displace farmers to lands outside the project 's boundary. [ 2IPCCBIODIVERSITE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Initially, the forest Source was severely Degree deforested and degraded due to logging for fuelwood and clearance for cultivation. [ according to DEFCHILE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

This site Source was deforested approximately 70 years ago Time and brought under unfertilized grazed pasture for 30 years. [ DEFIMPACT 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Throughout the tropics, and more specifically in the Northeast Queensland (NEQ) wet tropical region of Australia, extensive forested ecosystems Source have been deforested for sugarcane, banana, and pasture, both for dairy and beef cattle production Purpose . [ according to DEFIMPACT 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Each year, logging affects an area approximately as large as the areas Source being deforested. [ DEFROLES 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Between August and November 2007, approximately 7000 km2 Source were deforested according to an estimate based on MODIS satellite released by the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). [ according to DEFROLES 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

After Independence, deforestation continued mainly on Java, where up to 500,000 ha (about 17% of the forested area) Source were deforested, which caused an increase in flooding and land erosion. [ DEFBRAZIL 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Soils vary at much finer scales than these, and landholders Agent similarly make decisions to deforest at a scale of a few hectares, and not of a few hundred hectares Expanse . [ DEFFUTURE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Nine nations Agent deforest during 1990-2000 Duration , even though their GNP and rural population anticipate afforestation. [ DEFCORRE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Figure 17, based on World Bank (2000) data, reveals that most countries that afforest have subsidies exceeding 20 percent of total government expenditure, and that many countries that Agent deforest have lower subsidies. [ DEFCORRE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Economic Land Concession issuance frequently results in very rapid and extensive deforestation of the concession area, while displacing forest-dependent populations that transfer pressures that Cause degrade or deforest neighbouring areas Source . [ according to DEFCAMBODIA 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Almost five centuries of European presence before 1970 Cause deforested an area only slightly larger than Portugal Source . [ DEFBRAZIL 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Further, according to Holmes (2002), these areas Source were deforested due to conversion for industrial plantation forest (1.9 million ha or 11%) and estate crops (2.4 million ha or 14%) Cause , forest fires (1.74 million ha or 10%) Cause , small investors Agent (2.4 million ha or 10%) and forest pioneers Agent (1.22 million ha or 7%); they include logged-over areas waiting to be developed as industrial plantation forest (7.7 million ha or 48%). [ DEFHISTORY 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]

Section 3 of this paper discusses some of the credit and financial incentives that historically have driven Amazonian landholders Agent to deforest their land Source , and also suggests that factors related to land tenure, the cost of chemical fertilizers, and strong export markets for soybeans and cattle may continue to provide strong incentives to deforest in the future. [ DEFFUTURE 0 MCLH 17/07/2015 ]