Agriculture Deforestation

By Ranser J Rivera Alers

Agriculture deforestation
What is it?
What are the causes of this problem?
How it harms the planet?
Ways to prevent the problems?
Solutions to the problem

Agriculture deforestation
What is Agriculture Deforestation?
Agriculture deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand
of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest
use and used to harvest to take care of domestic animals.

Some example of this are:

making Farms
Making buildings
The production of cattle

Agriculture deforestation
What are the causes of this problem?
The causes are
Forest conversion
Forest conversion is the removing of natural forest

to make plantations, agriculture, pasture for cattle settlements

and mining.

Forest degradation
Forest degradation is the primary way of deforestation
because of climate change, forest fires and illegal logging.

Agriculture deforestation
What are the causes of this problem?
Rising demand of soil to harvest
The demand of soil is growing bigger and bigger
because of the demand of coffee, soy, palm oil
and cocoa.

Massive constructions
The strong demand of houses are increasing do population
with that also increase the manufacturing of buildings and
houses for the people to work and live.

Agriculture deforestation
What are the causes of this problem?
harvest timber to create commercial items such as paper,
furniture and homes
creating ingredients that are highly prized consumer items, such
as the oil from palm trees

creating room for cattle ranching

Desertification of land
It occurs due to land abuse making it unfit for growth of trees.
Many industries in petrochemicals release their waste into rivers which
results in soil erosion and make it unfit to grow plants and trees.

Agriculture deforestation
What are the causes of this problem?
Fires
Another example would be forest blazes; Hundreds of trees are lost
each year due to forest fires in various portions of the world. This happens
due to extreme warm summers and milder winters. Fires, whether causes
by man or nature results in huge loss of forest cover.

Agriculture deforestation
How it harms the planet?
There are a lot of ways it harms the planet, some of them are:
The contamination of the air
Increasing of the global warming
Trees play a major role in controlling global warming. The trees utilize
the green house gases, restoring the balance in the atmosphere. With
constant deforestation the ratio of green house gases in the
atmosphere has increased, adding to our global warming woes.

Causing erosion on the land

Tree roots anchor the soil. Without trees, the soil is free to wash
or blow away, which can lead to vegetation growth problems.

Agriculture deforestation
How it harms the planet?
Loss of species
Seventy percent of the worlds plants and animals live in forests
and are losing their habitats to deforestation, according to
National Geographic.

Loss of habitat can lead to species extinction. It also has negative

consequences for medicinal research and local populations who
rely on the animals and plants in the forests for hunting
and medicine
. Floods:

When it rains, trees absorb and store large amount of water with
the help of their roots. When they are cut down, the flow of water
is disrupted and leads to floods in some areas and droughts in
other.

Agriculture deforestation
How it harms the planet?
Water cycle:
Trees are important to the water cycle. They absorb rain fall and
produce water vapor that is released into the atmosphere. Trees
also lessen the pollution in water.

Life quality
Soil erosion can also lead to silt entering the lakes, streams and
other water sources. This can decrease local water quality and
contribute to poor health in populations in the area.

Global climate change

This is do to greenhouse gases that are in large enough quantity,
they can force climate change.

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Ways to prevent the problem?
This are some interesting ways to prevent agriculture deforestation
Silvopastoril system
In this case the system is composed of the animal forest component and
natural pastures ( grazing mountains ) .

Agroforestry System
Forestry is integrated to agriculture (agricultural and fodder crops) .

Agroforestry silvopastoril system

This type of practice is the most comprehensive , in which all (forestry ,
animal and crops in general) components are present.

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Solutions to the problem
curb the felling of trees, by employing a series of rules and laws to
govern it
Clear cutting of forests must be banned

the cutting trees must be replaced by planting young trees to replace

the older ones that were cut
The government need to implement anti-deforestation policies
Minimizing the paper wasting
Encouraging recycling

Agriculture deforestation
Solutions to the problem
use of recycled products
Use of renewable energy
Educate people about the problem and causes of deforesting.

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