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Causes of worldwide land degradation. Causes of land degradation by regions (pie and table chart)

#land #degradation #regions
The former pie
chart
 provides us with information about the major reasons for agricultural degradation in the 1990s. And the latter table divides these causes into three different areas
according to
 their percentage of being influenced.
Overall
, it can be seen from the pie
chart
 that over-grazing was the main reason of decreasing in land productivity. What's more, Europe was affected the most as given in the table
chart
 below. Looking at the information in more detail, we can see that 35% of degradation is caused by over-feeding and 30% by deforestation.
However
, over-cultivation and "other" reasons made up much less part of the
chart
, which is 28% and 7% respectively. Focusing on the division of impact by regions, Europe accounted by far 23% of the total diminution. Oceania in its turn was considered to be the less affected continent depicting only 5% of all.
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