Lessons In Sustainable Land Development
Increased rates of deforestation, unsustainable agricultural land use, and severe soil degradation are creating widespread poverty and environmental degradation in developing countries. Each day; the world loses about 125 square miles of its forests. That’s 34.5 million acres or 14 million hectares every year Most of this takes place in the developing countries of the humid tropics. Reforestation efforts are limited to only about 10% of the total area and most efforts are not promising.
Every year, the equivalent of 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide enters the global atmosphere, the result of the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels. This increase in atmospheric carbon, in combination with the loss of forests has combined to make global climate change worse.
The resulting human tragedy must be a cause for real concern because it affects all of us in so many ways. Global food security is declining, as is the world’s supply of safe drinking water. The death toll from floods and mudslides rises every year. World peace is threatened as nations wage war over a dwindling base of natural resources. Millions of rural families are forced from the homes into urban slums as the loss of the forests makes it no longer possible for their lands to support them.
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