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4 As we will see later, the expansion of pasture for beef production, croplands for soy and palm oil, and increasingly conversion of primary forest to tree plantations for paper and pulp have been the key drivers of this. Again, if we look at more recent satellite data we find that this is still true today: in 2019, the world lost 5.4 million hectares to deforestation, with Brazil and Indonesia accounting for 52% of it. This means around half (47%) of tropical deforestation took place in Brazil and Indonesia. The other single country where large forest areas are lost is Indonesia – it accounted for 14%. One-third of tropical deforestation happened in Brazil. It’s measured as the annual average between 20. In the chart we see the share of tropical deforestation by country and region. But where in the tropics did we lose this forest?
That was a decade ago, but the world is still losing a similar amount today: using satellite data, researchers at Global Forest Watch estimate that global deforestation in 2019 was around 5.4 million hectares. (2019) found that, between 20, the tropics lost an average of 5.5 million hectares of forest per year to agricultural land. Here we’ll look at both where tropical deforestation is happening and what products are driving it. They also combined this with global trade flows to assess how much of this deforestation was driven by international trade – we look at the role of trade specifically in a related article. 2 They quantified how much and where deforestation occurs from the expansion of croplands, pasture and tree plantations (for logging), and what products are grown on this converted land. In a study published in Global Environmental Change, Florence Pendrill and colleagues addressed both of these questions. This allows us to target our efforts towards specific industries, products, or countries where they will have the greatest impact.
If we want to tackle deforestation we need to understand two key questions: where we’re losing forests, and what activities are driving it. At least three-quarters of this is driven by agriculture – clearing forests to grow crops, raise livestock and produce products such as paper. Every year the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest.
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