Dataset
Agriculture-driven deforestation
owid.commodity-driven-deforestation
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About
Long-term, permanent tree cover loss for small- to large-scale agriculture.
Cite as: Global Forest Watch (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Permanent agriculture” [dataset]. Global Forest Watch, “Tree Cover Loss by Dominant Driver” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2001–2024
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-08-26
- Units
- hectares
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/commodity-driven-deforestation
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| tree_cover_loss_ha__category_permanent_agriculture | number | Permanent agriculture (hectares) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |