Question

what are the causes and consequences of land degradation

Answer 1

Answer:

simple causes are the humans. Some of people may disagree but this is the hardest reality in today. Who gave them permission to abuse land for their mean. They have no right to cut down the trees for building mutli-complexes,build home in acres or unuseful places like pub or other institution

Now consequences is the decreasing availability of land for agricultural purposes,barren land,increase in number of deserted places and list goes on.

Answer 2

Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land. The main causes of the land degradation include Climate Change, Land clearance and deforestation, Depletion of soil nutrients through poor farming practices, Overgrazing and over grafting, inappropriate irrigation, Urban sprawl and commercial development and Soil Pollution. In our country, water erosion is the most prominent reason of land degradation, followed by Soil acidity