... own 81% of the countries farmland and 70% of the world=s households are landless= (Anderson 1990).. Landless peasants are forced to search for land in the untouched forests. The building of new commercial logging roads into the interior rainforests assists the farmers in their search. Often, ... by commercial forestry. The global markets= demand for wood and wood products fuels the scale of logging activities. As consumption of wood, paper and other forest products increases so does the rate of deforestation. Eleven million acres a year are cut for commercial paper. AMcDonald=s J needs ...

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