ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an understanding of how to sustain and enhance agricultural production on tropical soils, with a focus on tropical deforestation and possible solutions. One possibility of abatement of global climate change is to reduce tropical deforestation. A lot of technology is sufficiently developed to be worthwhile testing. This issue is not only related to global change but, also, to other important issues, such as the preservation of biodiversity. Reducing tropical deforestation is relevant to global change and to many other issues. The process of deforestation is very complex. In some countries, particularly Brazil, a large part of the deforestation is caused by land speculation. There are a lot of myths or misconceptions about the agronomic potential of the humid tropics. The soils are low in fertility, but the statement that it isn't possible to grow crops continuously in those soils is incorrect.
