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Commodity-Driven Forest Loss: A Study of Southeast Asia

05 Feb 2021 Author(s): U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service (USFS), Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), and SERVIR-Mekong
Commodity-Driven Forest Loss: A Study of Southeast Asia

Commodity-Driven Forest Loss: A Study of Southeast Asia represents the culmination of a nearly two-year study funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) and conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service (USFS), Spatial Informatics Group (SIG), World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), and SERVIR-Mekong. The study focused on seven countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its goals were to determine the primary crops that have replaced natural forests from 2000 to 2015 and to calculate the carbon losses or gains associated with these conversions.