Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher

Check out this new study led by a Stanford researcher which shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming. The research team also found that big agribusiness has mostly replaced small farmers in doing most of the tree cutting in Brazil and Indonesia. See the full article here.