Figure 1: Global tree cover on agricultural land in the years 2000 and 2010. | Scientific Reports

Figure 1: Global tree cover on agricultural land in the years 2000 and 2010.

From: Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

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Approximately 40% of all agricultural land in the year 2010 had at least 10% tree cover (which corresponds to the FAO definition of forest). This increased by 3.7% by the 2010, to account for more than 43% of all agricultural land under some variation of agroforestry approaches. Based on this current analysis, these land-use types represent over 1 billion hectares of land and provide subsistence to more than 900 million people. Maps were produced based upon a geospatial analysis using ESRI ArcGIS software (version 10.3; http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis-for-desktop).

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