Green | August 25, 2009 | 5 comments

Intensive farming good for forests

source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17675-intensive-farming-good-for-forests.html?DCMP=OTC...

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Farmers wreck forests, right? You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who disagreed, but it turns out past studies have seriously under-estimated the number of trees on farms around the world.

In fact, a new analysis by the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi shows that often, the more intensive the farming the more trees that farmers plant – for fruit, medicines, fodder crops, windbreaks, and fuel.

The study, presented at the World Congress of Agroforestry in Nairobi this week, uses satellite images to show that almost half of farmed land worldwide has significant tree cover, most of it previously unmapped.
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