How can agroforestry systems be promoted as a more sustainable alternative to traditional agriculture?

Sep 23, 2019 ... ... percent, fired the director of ... Researchers estimate that up to 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed through deforestation. Nov 8, 2018 ... Silman has researched biodiversity and ecology in the Western Amazon and Andes for more than 25 years. Artisanal-scale gold mining has been ... Oct 13, 2023 ... In just 50 years, almost 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. Scientists warn that we're dangerously close to the ... Oct 31, 2023 ... ... rainforests [source: Butler]. It's believed that about 20 percent of the Amazon has been lost since the mid-1970s. Although conservation ... Mar 21, 2023 ... ... has already happened. Between 2001 ... he year with the highest percentage was 2003, reaching almost 5 million hectares of cleared forest. Sep 20, 2022 ... In a newly released report, the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) estimates that 13.2% of the original Amazon forest biome has been ... Dec 2, 2022 ... Brazil, which holds about two-thirds of the Amazon, also leads the destruction. In almost four decades, 19% of its rainforest has been ... Oct 3, 2022 ... Regardless of these recent actions, the destruction has been immense ... “We had reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 80 percent. Jan 12, 2024 ... Preliminary data shows more than 5000 sq km were cleared, still over six times the size of New York City. Apr 21, 2022 ... Over the past 50 years, about 17 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. This rate is currently on the rise. If we ...