The pie chart depicts the factors responsible for land degradation worldwide. The table, on the other hand, gives a regional breakdown of this degradation during the 1990s.
Referring to pie chart, the principle factor responsible for unproductive land is over-grazing, which contributed almost 35% to land degradation. In addition, deforestation and over-cultivation accounted for 30% and 28% respectively. Other reasons are considerably lower at 7%.
It is quite illusive from the table that Europe had the highest deforestation rate of 9.8% followed by Oceania and North America with 1.7% and ...
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