EC Nutrition

Deforestation is one of the side-products of our success in technology. Deforestation refers to a permanent removal of forest covers to establish businesses of any kind, ranging from, agri-food business to automotive. Even establishment of growing civilizations were done by removing some of the forest cover. According to the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2016) earth on an average is losing 18 million acres of forest each year (https://www.livescience.com/27692-deforestation.html) and more than 70% of the loss of forest cover is due to farm and commercial agriculture. This major depletion of forest cover each year will contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We as a civilization has used up lands since ages and now is the time when nature is on the verge of giving up on us if we don’t intend to replenish it back.