The pie cahrt below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive. The table shows how these causes affected three regions of the world during the 1990s. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Given is a pie chart showing why agricultural

land

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becomes less productive over time

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a table which shows how these causes affected the

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regions of North

America

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,

Europe

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, and Oceania during the 1990s. Looking at the pie chart we can decipher that there are

three

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main causes of worldwide

land

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degradation

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, overgrazing

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animals

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as cows,

over cultivation

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from

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crops, and

deforestation

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. The most impactful cause is

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overgrazing which accounts for 35% of the degraded

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.

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is

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deforestation

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which is not far from overgrazing at 30% and

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is

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over

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cultivation. All

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of these add up to 93%. There is

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another small segment which is

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‘other’ which accounts for

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7% of all other smaller causes of the

degradation

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. Moving on to the table which is essentially a more detailed breakdown of the pie chart as it divides these groups into 3 regions, North

America

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,

Europe

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, and Oceania in the 1990s we can see that

Europe

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had the highest percentage of total

land

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degradation

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at 23%.

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can be

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broken down to 9.8% from

deforestation

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, 7.7% from

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, and 5.5% from

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overgrazing

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of animals. Looking at Oceania next which is not a single landmass but rather a large group of islands in the south pacific including New

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Zealand

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and Australia the total is shown to be 13% of degraded

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. They have the highest percentage of

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overgrazing

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compared to the other two groups at 11.3% and the rest of their

degradation

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comes from

deforestation

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at 1.7%.

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, moving on to North

America

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, their total is only 5% with 0.2% of it coming from

deforestation

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, 3.3% from overcultivation and 1.5% from overgrazing.

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, we can see that

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is the continent which

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affected the most

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land

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degradation

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in the 1990s as they have the highest percentage of degraded

land

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at 23% as mentioned above

whereas

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North

America

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is the

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at 5%. All

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of the percentages add up to

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41% meaning that there is still 59% of worldwide

degradation

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to be accounted for.