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Politics, News & Issues > Food & Agriculture The importance of sustainable agriculture

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Growing practices that exhibit foresight and long-term good management are the only agricultural methods that we dare use. When large-scale rain forest destruction began, who could have foreseen the effect on global climate? The swaths of comparatively bare farmland that remain after jungle vegetation burns off actually impacts the precipitation pattern. It prevents the formation of contiguous rain clouds, thus reducing the rainfall. Fewer trees converting carbon dioxide into oxygen of course increases the level of heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere.

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