Multi-scale farmland loss in mountainous Yunnan demands adaptive land

Multi-scale farmland loss in mountainous Yunnan demands adaptive land

In the mountainous heart of Yunnan Province, where more than 94 percent of the land is steep terrain and fertile valleys are scarce, scientists have been tracking a quiet but relentless transformation. Fields that once fed local communities have been vanishing — converted to roads, buildings, forests, and grassland — at a rate that has […]