The pie chart illustrates the major factors that affect negatively to the productivity

of agriculture land, while the table shows the percentage of land degradation in
three regions caused by the aforementioned factors in the 1990s.

Looking at the pie chart, it is evident that the most significant factor that lead to
the global land degradation is over-gazing, which damages 35% of agriculuture
lands. Placing second is the deforestation, accounted for 30% deterioration of
land. The third reason is over-cultivation which results in a 28% of land
degradation. Last but not least, the remaining 7% is catagorized as “other” that
includes many minor reasons

According to the given table, three regions fell victim to land degradation in the
1990s – North America, Europe, and Oceania. Overall, Europe had the highest
percentage of land degradation with 23%, in comparison with Oceania which
includes Australia and New Zealand (13%) and North America (5%). The three
major factors mentioned affected these areas differently. Firstly, Europe’s land
was severely damaged by deforestation, destroying 9.8% of land. Over-cultivation
also had a detrimental effect to Europe’s farming land, damaging 7.7% of total
land. But it took a turn when 11.3% of cultivable land in Oceania was degraded
compared to Europe’s 5.5% and North America 1.5%.