EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -the process by which human activity and natural process damage land to the point that it can no longer support the local ecosystem.

Detailed explanation-2: -Land degradation has accelerated during the 20th and 21st centuries due to increasing and combined pressures of agricultural and livestock production (over-cultivation, overgrazing, forest conversion), urbanization, deforestation and extreme weather events such as droughts and coastal surges, which salinate land.

Detailed explanation-3: -Land degradation is damage to land that reduces its resilience, productivity and biodiversity. Land is damaged by both natural processes such as weather and human causes such as pollution. The following are common examples of land degradation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Land degradation-the deterioration or loss of the productive capacity of the soils for present and future-is a global challenge that affects everyone through food insecurity, higher food prices, climate change, environmental hazards, and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services.