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Destruction of agricultural land
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Name(s):
Damage to arable land
Degradation of farm lands
Incidence
Over 23 sq km of rural land in the USA are developed every day (1993). At the same time, each year around 400,000 hectares of cropland are lost to erosion.
Broader
Land degradation
Agricultural mismanagement
Unethical practices in agriculture
Narrower
Intensive farming
Mismanaged plantations
Destruction of land productivity
Destruction of pasture by donkeys
Inundation of agricultural land through dams
Degradation of agricultural land by cash crops
Increasing proportion of land surface devoted to urbanization
Related
Cultivation of marginal agricultural land
This problem is a member of 2 aggravating loops
Aggravates
Declining area of agricultural land
[in 2 loops]
Aggravated by
Soil pollution
Natural disasters
Over-spacing of suburban housing
Degradation of cultivated land systems
Strategy(ies)
Providing agricultural aid to developing countries
Increasing amount of cultivable land
Damaging agricultural land
Conserving agricultural land
Value(s)
Land
Damage
Destructiveness
Type
(D) Detailed problems