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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie chart depicts the percentages of the reasons why the agricultural field is becoming more and more unproductive. The table shows how those reasons impacted three huge continents
in the 1990s. When considered together, the information suggests that there is a link between the percentage of
over-
cultivation
cultivation
on land
degradation
in all three continents back in the 1990s.
The cause of land
degradation
at the moment is overgrazing with approximately 35%. This
percentage is five times bigger than the amount of other possible causes, apart from deforestation
at 30% and over-
cultivation
at 28%. This
correlates with the table which showed that three of the continents experienced large amounts of land
degradation
caused by overgrazing in the 1990s.
While
in the 1990s, in North America, land
degradation
was minimal, with a total of 5% overall
. Over-
cultivation
cultivation
is the primary cause, at just 3.3%. Followed by overgrazing at around 1.5%, and deforestation
at about 0.2%. Then
, in Europe, they experienced a higher land
degradation
than North America, with approximately 23% in total. Deforestation
has the highest impact of degradation
with 9.8%. It was followed by over-
cultivation
cultivation
at 7.7%, and overgrazing at 5.5%. Moreover
, Oceania has a total of 13%, which is lower than Europe but higher than North America. It had overgrazing for the predominant cause, which was 11.3%. Deforestation
and over-
cultivation
cultivation
contributed much less, at approximately 1.7% and 0% respectively.
Overall
, the figures suggest a possible association between today’s worldwide causes of land
degradation
with 1990s regional causes of land
degradation
, but the correlation was refuted as some of the data in the chart doesn’t match with the data in the table.Submitted by riani.the2 on
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