New UN report details the best ways to prevent deforestation in Latin America. What's that got to do with U.S. food needs?
New UN report details the best ways to prevent deforestation in Latin America. What’s that got to do with U.S. food needs? The lead author of a comprehensive new report connects the dots on how the way we eat affects tropical forests—and vice versa. On March 25, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a new report on the state of forests in Latin America and the Caribbean. Titled Forest Governance by Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, the report shows that forests managed by these groups are twice as likely to avoid deforestation as similarly accessible forests man...
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