Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

By Holly K. Gibbs, A. Ruesch, Frédéric Achard, Murray K. Clayton, P. Holmgren, Navin Ramankutty, J. Foley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Do timber plantations contribute to forest conservation (2016, background): “There are other significant threats to the world’s forests such as deforestation for agriculture (Gibbs et al., 2010) and poaching of wildlife (Robinson and Bodmer, 1999), although there are often strong interconnections between logging and these other threatening processes, particularly the impact…”
The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection (2017, neutral): “Most tropical deforestation since the 1980s is due to the expansion of plantations and ranches (50, 78).”
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production: globalization, intensification and neo-nature in South America (2016, background): “This is especially true when soy development ‘leapfrogs’ into more frontier areas (Gibbs et al. 2010; Meyfroidt et al. 2014; Richards, Walker, and Arima 2014; Graesser, Aide, and Ramankutty 2015).”
The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss (2016, neutral): “[21] made a global assessment of land cover changes for the expansion of agriculture in the tropics, they decided to classify using only five land cover types to reduce these types of errors.”
Optimizing land use decision-making to sustain Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services (2016, background): “This is an open access article under between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense of tropical forests (Gibbs et al., 2010); over 34% of recent global tropical deforestation (2000−2012) occurred in Brazil (Hansen et al.”
Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “and just under a third from disturbed forest (61).”
Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century (2021, methodology): “of the estimated ratio of class proportion expressed as percentage was calculated using equation (4):”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Local, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Biofuels Environmental and Social Impacts of Oil Palm Plantations and their Implications for Biofuel Production in Indonesia (2012, background): “Between 2010 and 2020, experts expect between three and seven million ha of new oil palm plantations will be developed for food and biofuel (Gingold 2010).”
Land property rights, agricultural intensification, and deforestation in Indonesia (2018, background): “Agricultural area expansion is one of the main drivers of deforestation (Gibbs et al., 2010), and demand for agricultural output will further increase due to population and income growth.”
Increasing human dominance of tropical forests (2015, background): “non-forest, mostly for farmland (21, 22) and mining (23); degradation of remaining forest, via hunting (24), selective-logging (11), fire (25), and fragmentation and associated edge effects (26); and regeneration of secondary forest (8).”
An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries (2012, background): “Although agricultural expansion has been determined as the key driver of deforestation in the tropics (Gibbs et al 2010), drivers vary regionally and change over time (Rudel et al 2009, Boucher et al 2011).”
Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions (2014, background): “Between 1980 and 2000, 83% of agricultural land expansion in the tropics occurred at the expense of forests, and livestock were a major contributor (5).”
Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America (2015, background): “Remote sensing can provide essential information on the intensity, type and pattern of deforestation, and on the follow-up land use in order to attribute deforestation to specific human activities (Gibbs et al 2010, De Sy et al 2012, GOFC-GOLD 2014).”