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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

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)

Reference(s)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Assessment and Collection of Data on Pre-Harvest Foodgrain Losses

Type

(D) Detailed problems

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