Preserving the farmland and agricultural resources for our future generations. The environmental impact of agriculture varies based on the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Government farmland preservation programs and many private land trusts work to ensure that we don’t destroy the resources that feed us. The global population is projected to rise from today’s 7.5 billion to 10 billion by 2050. The development of agriculture enabled the human population to grow many times larger than could be sustained by hunting and gathering. The removal of a forest or stand of trees from land which is then converted to a non-forest use. Deforestation destroys the trees and forest. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area. Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. Deforestation increases, water decreases. Common methods of deforestation ...
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