Relacionar Columnas Another cause of deforestationVersión en línea Deforestation por Maria F Delgado 1 Farmers use a lot of land just to produce enough crops, which is causing their farming techniques to become inefficient. The land is also becoming exhausted, 2 Every year, farmers expand the area of land they are using in order to produce enough crops to make money . 3 Africa is a continent where there are people living on very little because of the insufficient income they receive 4 One of the most significant indirect reasons of increasing deforestation across Africa is poverty. Africa’s population is growing annually, ______so that the population can take themselves out of poverty. 5 Even with all the sophisticated tools available in different parts f the world, African farmers are using none of them, which causes the large land area of abundant forest to be used to farm as a means of securing food, and because of the lack of fertilizers, the need for clearing more land continues This process is named “shifting cultivation,” and it is causing a lot of deforestation even though their tools roughly damage the land. Although we know about the extreme poverty they suffer, we don’t understand the relationship it has with deforestation.