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One effect of globalization on the environments of developing nations is the loss of native flora and fauna due to the conversion of wild lands to farmland and pasture for industrial agriculture. El Salvador, for instance, was covered in dense wood forests that stretched for miles in the early twentieth century. This changed, however, when commercial coffee producers moved in and pushed small subsistence farmers off their lands, forcing them to clear the forests to farm. The forests of El Salvador don’t exist any longer (Faber 1993b:85).
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