"deforestation practices" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to methods or processes which are causing forests to be depleted or destroyed. For example, "Deforestation practices such as clear-cutting and burning of forests can have devastating effects on local wildlife and climate patterns."
From the land-use change perspective, we estimated the water storage capacity loss by slash-and-burn deforestation practices.
This tool also helps to recognize clear-cutting and deforestation practices that contribute to climate change and threaten local biodiversity.
Landowners more likely to engage in deforestation practices denoted greater interest in participating in a conservation program when contracts allowed for the sustainable harvesting of timber.
Much of this increase is due to carbon dioxide released to the atmosphere from the burning of coal, oil, gas, and wood and from the slash-and-burn activities that accompany deforestation practices (as, for example, those adopted in the Amazon River basin).
Deforestation practices, notably in Indonesia, wherein vast tracts of rainforest and peat land are being cleared to support palm oil plantations have also provoked controversy [11].
Assessments of CO2 emissions from deforestation practices have been conducted at global and regional scales [e.g., [5, 7 10]], at national scales [11, 12], and at local levels [13 15].
In line with this, Mulugeta (2004) and Belayneh (2009) reported that deforestation, farming practices and intensive grazing change soil texture by aggravating soil erosion.
Our team worked with the value chain actors listed above to assess the financial benefits of sustainable and deforestation-free practices through research, data analysis, and interviews conducted over a four-month timeframe.
A case study of Brazil's beef industry shows how sustainable and deforestation-free practices can create significant financial benefits for all players in the value chain — benefits that can be measured and translated into dollars saved and earned.
First, based on our framework (Sustainable Business Benefits at the Firm Level), we identified and selected for deeper consideration a list of potential benefits of adopting sustainable and deforestation-free practices across the different players in the supply chain.
In recent years, a series of commitments and pledges have been made by major companies to cease producing, trading or buying palm oil linked to deforestation and exploitative practices.
