The pie chart below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive. the table shows how these causes affected three regions of the world the 1990's. summarize the information by reporting the main features and make comparison where necessary.

The pie chart provides information about the causes of worldwide land degeneration and the proportion of area degraded by

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activities in North America, Europe and Oceania.

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, it is clearly seen that overgrazing accounted for the major cause of farmland deterioration and the least cause was other factors

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the region that had a larger proportion of its land destroyed was Europe and the country that had a lesser effect was North America. it is seen from the graph that, animals feeding on grasses were the major cause of the degradation accounting for 35%.

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was followed by the cutting down of trees which constituted a third. over-cultivation was

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another factor , 28% and

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7% were for other reasons. turning to the table, Europe was the most region affected by

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degradation, at 23%. deforestation accounted for only 9.8%, over- cultivation 7.7%, and over grazing 5.5.

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, Oceania was the 2nd leading country with its land degraded (13%) , overgrazing alone was 11.3% .