date:May 30, 2014
e from cattle belching or nitrous oxide from use of fertilizers, there is deforestation.
Most of the emissions from deforestation are connected to the expansion of farming in developing countries.
Brazil has lost 36 million hectares of forest over the last 12 years, mainly in new frontiers for agricultural production, says the WRI.
Eduardo Assad, a climate expert at Brazilian agricultural research center Embrapa who also contributed to the new protocol, says Brazilian food companies and produ