Certain land use practices also contribute to rapid deforestation. Remove Ecological Regions: Level 1 Regions. Select Prevailing Agriculture Practices and select Split map window. Change Projection to Mollweide. Zoom to Sub-Saharan Africa. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, which prevailing agriculture practice is most associated with extensive deforestation? Certain land use practices also contribute to rapid deforestation. Remove Ecological Regions: Level 1 Regions. Select Prevailing Agriculture Practices and select Split map window. Change Projection to Mollweide. Zoom to Sub-Saharan Africa. Within Sub-Saharan Africa, which prevailing agriculture practice is most associated with extensive deforestation? Pastoral nomadism Shifting cultivation Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant Livestock ranching Mixed crop and livestock

The main reason for deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa is the cultivation of wet rice in order to feed the growing population. The environment is suitable for the rice cultivation in Sub-Saharan Africa which allow them to bring more area under cultivation of rice. There is 30% population below than the line of poverty so for providing food to these people, the forests are removed and grow more rice on these fields which leads to increase in the rate of deforestation in the Sub-Saharan Africa.