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Source: FAOSTAT (1997).About two-thirds of the expansion of agricultural land (or 115 million hectares) has come from the cultivation of previously unused or barren land (i.e. "other land" under the FAO land-use classification system). The remaining 55 million hectares has come from the conversion of FOWL to agricultural use. The average loss of FOWL in the Asia-Pacific region over the entire period 1961 to 1994 can be calculated at about 1.6 million hectares per year. In comparison, the Forest Resources Assessment of 1990 (FRA 1990) estimated an annual loss of about 0.8 million hectares of FOWL during the 1980s, suggesting that the rate of deforestation may have declined since the 1960s and 1970s.The changes described above have not occurred equally across all countries in the region. Table 4.2 shows the average long-run changes in land use that have taken place in the various Asia-Pacific sub-regions and the long-run trend in FOWL conversion to other uses (from FAOSTAT). It also shows more recent changes (1980-1990) in FOWL area (reported by FRA 1990). The area of FOWL is increasing in North and South Asia, mostly due to large afforestation programmes in India and the People's Republic of China, while most major losses of FOWL are occurring in Southeast Asia.
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