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125M ha degraded lands identified forest-friendly agricultural expansion
2014-12-19 22:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A team of researchers has identified 125 million hectares (309 million acres) of land suitable for agricultural expansion that won't come at the expense of tropical forests. The study, published in Conservation Letters, argues that shifting agricultural expansion away from forests to these "degraded lands" would avoid 13 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions that would be released were forests converted for plantations, pasture, and croplands. Those emissions are roughly equivalent to the amount...
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