Read the passage and answer the following questions:There is a clear link between degraded forests and poverty. It is estimated that one billion of the world's poorest people in about 30 heavily deforested countries would be alleviated from poverty if they are given government support for managing neighbouring public forest land and sharing benefits with in their communities.
The forests face even shakier future with the global population expected to grow by 50 percent in the next 50 years. To accommodate a growing population's need of more land for food production we should be making better use of the degraded land through 'Evergreen Revolution'.The growth of population is positively linked with growth of forests.