Assessing the potential additionality of certification by the Round table on Responsible Soybeans and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil

Table We calculate low and high estimates of the fraction of total tree cover loss due to crop expansion, as well as the fraction of tree cover loss attributable to soy or oil palm ""expansion (BAU). Tree cover loss data are derived by applying a 30% canopy cover threshold to annual Landsat-derived percent tree cover data (21), while crop expansion data were downloaded from FAOSTAT (42). Oil palm area for Cambodia was not available from FAOSTAT. Some countries had no certified (NC) area in 2013 or 2014.