Over the last forty years, 20 per cent of the Amazon basin has been cleared for a number of reasons, some of which are listed in the diagram below.

Top soil loss threatens food security Intensive agriculture and deforestation are major causes of land degradation involving soil erosion, leaving large areas vulnerable to the loss of fertile top ...

In contrast, moderate soil loss can cause major declines in the productivity ... processes involving water movement and storage land degradation - the loss of key land functions (e.g., water ...

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment of 2005 estimates that 10% of the drylands suffer from one or more forms of land degradation. Poverty is one of the causes as well as a consequence of ...

Soil degradation has reduced the productivity of nearly a quarter of the global land surface, affected the well-being of about 3.2 billion people and cost about 10% of annual global gross domestic ...

The causes of soil degradation are not new ... fuelling a decline in living standards in Central Asia, is taking hold. “Land degradation, combined with increasing anthropogenic pressure caused ...

What is Desertification? Desertification is a type of land degradation that occurs in dry-land ecosystems that occurs. This global phenomena is formed by a combination of both natural and human causes ...