Alain Karsenty (researcher): in Africa, "most of the deforestation comes from small-scale agriculture"

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Like the Amazon rainforest, certain forests in Central Africa are also in danger (illustration).

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By: Amélie Tulet Follow

On the occasion of the opening of the Glasgow International Conference on Climate Change organized by the United Nations, Cop26, focus on the forests of Central Africa, the second largest massif of dense humid forest on the planet after the forest Amazonian.

It spans six countries, the DRC, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo, the Central African Republic and Equatorial Guinea.

Long preserved, it is increasingly threatened.

Two million hectares are deforested each year.

Alain Karsenty, research economist at CIRAD, is our guest.

• Environment

• COP26

• Climate change

• Africa