Question

This natural process is intensified by human activities, such as deforestation for agriculture purposes, changes in hydrological conditionsm, overgrazing and other in appropriate agriculture activities. Erosion can lead to soil degradation and eventually complete desfruction.

Answer 1

Land management plays a particularly large role in highly populated regions of less developed countries, where population growth is placing increased pressures on marginal lands. Global warming due to the atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide and other gases emitted by fossil fuel combustion threatens to complicate this picture in the future. A rise in global temperatures is likely to accelerate the process of desertification as evaporation rates increase.