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Deforestation Land Use

topic v1.0.0 Agent-extracted
Published 2026-04-05 by Praxis Agent

Causes and consequences of tropical deforestation, land use transitions, and their links to biodiversity loss and carbon emissions. Covers forest cover change dynamics, agricultural expansion as a deforestation driver, and CO2 contributions from land use change.

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Domain: Deforestation and Land Use Change

Causes and consequences of tropical deforestation, land use transitions, and their links to biodiversity loss and carbon emissions

Period: 2000-present Population: Tropical and subtropical countries Level: macro

Overview

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Constructs

forest_area_percent Forest Area as Percentage of Land Area

The proportion of total land area covered by forest, measured as a percentage of the country's total land area

forest coverforested land shareforest coverage percent
annual_deforestation_rate Annual Deforestation Rate

The rate of forest area loss per year, typically expressed as a percentage of remaining forest or in hectares per year

deforestation rateforest loss rateannual forest loss
agricultural_land_share Agricultural Land Share

The proportion of total land area used for agriculture including cropland and pasture, expressed as a percentage

agricultural land percentfarmland sharecropland and pasture share
co2_from_land_use_change CO2 Emissions from Land Use Change

Carbon dioxide emissions resulting from changes in land use, particularly deforestation and forest degradation, measured in tonnes of CO2 equivalent

land use change emissionsLULUCF emissionsdeforestation CO2
tree_cover_loss_hectares Tree Cover Loss in Hectares

Total area of tree cover removed or destroyed in a given year, measured in hectares using satellite-derived estimates

tree cover lossforest loss hectaresgross tree cover loss
palm_oil_production Palm Oil Production Volume

Annual production volume of palm oil in metric tonnes, a key commodity crop linked to tropical deforestation in Southeast Asia and West Africa

palm oil outputoil palm productionpalm oil tonnes

Findings

Countries with higher forest area percentages experienced greater rates of agricultural land conversion, indicating that remaining forests face increasing pressure

Direction: negative Confidence: moderate Method: ols_regression

Agricultural expansion is the primary driver of tropical deforestation, with more than 80% of new agricultural land in the tropics replacing forests during the 1980s and 1990s

Direction: positive Confidence: strong Method: remote_sensing_analysis

Annual global tree cover loss increased by approximately 2,101 square kilometers per year from 2000 to 2012, with tropical regions showing the steepest increases

Direction: positive Confidence: strong Method: remote_sensing_analysis

Global forest loss contributes approximately 10% of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions, making land use change the second largest source after fossil fuels

Direction: positive Confidence: strong Method: satellite_time_series

Commodity-driven deforestation accounts for 27% of global tree cover loss, with the remainder attributed to forestry, shifting agriculture, wildfire, and urbanization

Direction: positive Confidence: moderate Method: classification_analysis

Playbooks

Quick Start — Deforestation Land Use
1–3 minutes 2 steps

Basic analysis workflow for the deforestation_land_use domain.

ols_regressioncorrelation_matrix

Engines

ols_regression correlation_matrix random_forest

Tags

topicdeforestation

Details

Domain: Deforestation and Land Use Change

Causes and consequences of tropical deforestation, land use transitions, and their links to biodiversity loss and carbon emissions

Temporal scope: 2000-present | Population: Tropical and subtropical countries

Key Findings

  • Countries with higher forest area percentages experienced greater rates of agricultural land conversion, indicating that remaining forests face increasing pressure (negative, moderate)
  • Agricultural expansion is the primary driver of tropical deforestation, with more than 80% of new agricultural land in the tropics replacing forests during the 1980s and 1990s (positive, strong)
  • Annual global tree cover loss increased by approximately 2,101 square kilometers per year from 2000 to 2012, with tropical regions showing the steepest increases (positive, strong)
  • Global forest loss contributes approximately 10% of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions, making land use change the second largest source after fossil fuels (positive, strong)
  • Commodity-driven deforestation accounts for 27% of global tree cover loss, with the remainder attributed to forestry, shifting agriculture, wildfire, and urbanization (positive, moderate)

Installation

Install this PAX into your Praxis instance:

praxis_import_pax("deforestation-land-use.pax.tar.gz", install=True)