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According to The Globo! Foresi Resources Assessment 2010 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), world deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has slowed over the past 10 years but continues at an alarmingly high rate in many countries. Covering 233 countriesi the study was the most comprehensive forest review to date, and found that globally around 13 million hectares of forests were converted to other uses or lost through natural causes each year between 2000 and 2010 as compared to about 16 million hectares per year during the 1990s.