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Highway infrastructure initiates the deforestation process, but it is almost always accompanied by some sort of agricultural activity. Depending upon circumstances, deforestation can proceed rapidly or slowly, lead to large or small forest clearings, and create forest remnants of different sizes and configurations.
As long-term investments, agricultural production systems can assume a role as key elements of a sustainable economy. When practiced as a speculative enterprise, however, extractive practices that yield cashflow tend to degrade productive potential over the medium term. Under-investment in smallholder communities forces the adoption of non-sustainable options that function as a poverty trap and rob the regional economy of an important driver of growth.
Agricultural production systems can be classified as a proximate cause of deforestation, but the demand for commodities is the ultimate driver that motivates producers to expand production. The markets that influence agricultural production are as varied as the commodities produced by the farmers of the Pan Amazon.
Coffee cultivation in Ecuador can be a driver of deforestation when new fields are established by clearing natural forest, or a sustainable form of tropical agriculture if producers expand by recovering abandoned fields and secondary forest. Image by Dr. Morley Read / Shutterstock.
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