During the past three years, USDA's conservation agencies, the U.S. Forest Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Farm Service Agency, have worked with more than half a million farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to enroll record acres in conservation programs, have targeted conservation dollars to locally-driven conservation initiatives and have worked to increase conservation and restoration activities on the 193 million acre National Forest system.

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Participating farms have designated more than 100, 000 hectares as conservation areas, and 99% have not converted any natural forest areas to coffee production since the C.

FORBES: Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises, Part Two