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 during the 1990s.

The top diagram illustrates

causes

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the causes

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of global

land

deteriorate

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deterioration

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and the table presents the percentage of

land

destruction by territory. Looking first at the pie chart,

major

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the major

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impacts

to

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on

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land

degradation are: over-grazing,

deforestation

, and

over-cultivation

. Thirty-five

percent

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per cent

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accounted for over-grazing; outweighing

deforestation

by five

percent

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per cent

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and

over-cultivation

by seven

percent

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. Moving on to

data

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the data

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in the table, European

land

was twenty-three

percent

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destroyed, mostly by

deforestation

.

On the other hand

, North America was least destructed at

the

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degraded percentage of five, mainly by

over-cultivation

. The minority of Oceania’s

land

was degraded by the cause of over-grazing. In conclusion, damage to farming

land

results from three main factors. The most urgent problem is over-grazing. Other key reasons are

deforestation

and

over-cultivation

. European

land

degraded at the highest rate compared to other regions

such

as North America and Oceania; mostly from the cause of

deforestation

. Two other countries encountered

most

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the most

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harm from over-grazing and

over-cultivation

, respectively.