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Thorny issue for Africa.


Africa experienced an annual net loss of more than 9 million acres of forest between the years of 2000 and 2005, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States (FAO FAO,
n See Food and Agriculture Organization.
). This makes Africa the continent with the second-highest rate of forest loss, right behind South America. Africa also leads other continents in forest fires, caused in large part by the tradition of burning forests to the ground to create space for agriculture or grasslands.

Although more than half of African countries have tried to remedy the problem of forest loss over the last 15 years by creating new forestry policies, establishing and enforcing these laws have proved difficult. The programs have yielded meager mea·ger also mea·gre  
adj.
1. Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.

2. Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble: the meager soil of an eroded plain.

3.
 results, and Africa continues to suffer devastating dev·as·tate  
tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates
1. To lay waste; destroy.

2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark.
 forest losses each year, the FAO said.
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Title Annotation:highest forest loss
Publication:American Forests
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Geographic Code:60AFR
Date:Jun 22, 2006
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