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Declining area of agricultural land
Name(s):
Increasing unproductive land
Unprofitable farmlands
Claim
The loss of arable land to urban encroachment and soil erosion means that Bangladesh and Egypt will soon be the only two populous nations with less arable land per capita than China.
Broader
Declining economic productivity
Stagnated development of agricultural production
Narrower
Loss of animal productivity
Deliberately unused farm fields
Declining area of irrigated land
Reduction of soil fertility downstream due to impoundment
Related
Unproductive workers
Unprofitable home industries
This problem is a member of 6 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Uneconomical small farms
Decline in food production
Abuse of agricultural techniques
Subsistence agricultural income level in rural communities
[in 6 loops]
Aggravated by
Floods
Air pollution
Soil degradation
Inadequate land drainage
Pollution of inland waters
Anthropogenic climate change
Unstable shifting agriculture
Inadequate agricultural capital
Destruction of agricultural land
Inappropriate modernization of agriculture
Degradation of agricultural land by cash crops
Environmental degradation due to creation of dams and lakes
Increasing proportion of land surface devoted to urbanization
Unsustainable short-term improvements in agricultural productivity
Natural disasters
Strategy(ies)
Phasing-out ozone depleting substances
Combatting ozone depletion
Monitoring ozone depletion
Intercropping
Increasing efficiency of agricultural water use
Reducing overgrazing
Providing agricultural aid to developing countries
Increasing food crop productivity
Maximizing agricultural land yield
Developing land believed unprofitable
Damaging agricultural land
Value(s)
Land
Counterproductivity
Decline
Unproductivity
Unprofitable
Reference(s)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Assessment and Collection of Data on Pre-Harvest Foodgrain Losses
Type
(D) Detailed problems