The pie chart 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.

The pie chart illustrates four segments of major features of farming land degradation all around the world,

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the table compares the reasons for land degradation in three different regions, North America, Europe, and Oceania, in 1990. At first glance, over-grazing had the leading role in the lands losing their productivity, and

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the highest total farmland degradation belongs to Europe, North America’s grounds suffered the least. Most people think deforestation would be the principal factor for an area to be less fruitful,

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, over-grazing was ranked higher by 35%, which was 5% more than cutting down the trees, and the third place belonged to over-cultivation at 28%.

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, based on data from the table, the total European grounds degraded was 23% in 1990, which was nearly twice that of Oceania by 13%. Even though deforestation was the least of concerns in North America (0.2%), it was the main cause of the lands becoming deforested in Europe, with 9.8%.