NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Encroach

Encroachment is a term which implies "advance beyond proper limits", and may have different interpretations depending on the context. Encroachment may refer to one of the following:

Temporal encroachment
Structural encroachment
Military encroachment
Economic encroachment

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How much will feeding more and wealthier people encroach on forests? - Paul Waggoner and Jesse Ausubel (5377 words)
	The expansion of soybeans encroached on native vegetation, though not on forest, in the Brazilian campo cerrado.
	Waggoner (1994)[9] and Goklany (1999)[9] calculated not cropland encroaching on forests as population grew, but the rising yields and intensities of cultivation that would shrink or stabilize cropland during the next 50 years.
	So although 1 new ha of crops can encroach on 1 ha of forest, we found that crops and forest do not always play a zero-sum game and put the factor connecting cropland expansion to forest encroachment between 1/3 and 1.

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