WHRC releases 4 key reports(ribes the potential for agricultural exp...)

Date:12/2/2007

ribes the potential for agricultural expansion into the worlds tropical forests driven by sugar cane, soy, and palm oil expansion. This industrial agricultural expansion is already bringing high profits to producers in some tropical countries and could provide an important new driver of deforestation that increases the opportunity costs of slowing deforestation. Five countries (Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, Peru, and Colombia) contain 75 percent of the worlds forested land that is highly suitable for industrial agriculture expansion, as estimated using data on soils and climate. This study also identifies those forests with dense populations of people in them, where the costs of slowing deforestation will only be feasible through development of viable alternative income sources. Forests with low suitability of industrial agriculture and low densities of human residents will be the cheapest to set aside as nations develop their REDD programs.

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Contact: Elizabeth Braun ebraun@whrc.org 508-540-9900 Woods Hole Research Center Source:Eurekalert

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