Land degradation

and a lot of desert (Drakenberg). Nearing the south, the rain amount increases up to 1400 millimeters (Drakenberg). This is also where the most fertile land is and where, not surprisingly, the most populated places are. These populated areas are causing environmental problems through air, water, and land. The major one is degradation. Degradation is, more or less, the…

Elimination of life threatens Horn of Africa Somalia like most African countries is suffering from environmental degradation and desertification, the country suffers from both natural and manmade environmental issues. High levels of deforestation and overgrazing cause desertification and soil erosion. Productive land is destroyed by irrigation. The country has a growing population, people who depend on Agriculture as a way of making a living alongside raising livestock. There is very low…

it’s taken is its effect on the environment, the world. Humans will not be able to survive the results of human development due to land degradation, lack of water management skills, pollution, and increasing carbon footprints. Land degradation is a big factor of why human beings won’t be able to remain on Earth forever. The US Global change research program claims that land is one of the tools humans use to sustain life. David Pimentel stated in his journal article,…

Environmental degradation and climate change affects the health and nourishment of the poor as well as lower their capacity to produce. Degradation of global environment such as air, water, and soil pollution, deforestation, and excessive waste contribute to human health threats around the world. Being exposed to all those environmental degradations can cause severe diseases; for instance, 19-25% of the diseases worldwide are connected to environmental elements. In addition, a big percentage of…

Concepts of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change According to (FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), 2000; Gregorio, 2005) land cover refers to the biophysical cover of the earth surface or land for instance vegetation cover such as forest, shrub/bushland, and grassland and water. Whereas land cover can be defined as the attributes of the earth’s land surface covered by vegetation, desert, water bodies like lake, sea, ocean, bare soil and ice (Chrysoulakis et al., 2004; Lambin et al., 2003). Land…

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Sustainability of the environment has become a long gone story. The environment is no longer as productive as it was initially. The activities of man have resulted to the condition we are in now. The population on Earth, both for man and animals, has increased. Land and other resources continually decline; in productivity and quality. The sustainability of the current and the future generations is largely compromised. Actually, if the trend as far as the environment, population and productivity…

Environmental degradation occurs because people are taking to many resources from that land. Once this happens, over time the land will eventually be useless for people and animals. The greed of global capitalism can harm the environment. Companies can be abusing the resources of a piece of land in order to make profit. While that company is abusing the resources of that land it is hurting the environment. Human consumption can also be harmful…

from the exhaustion of said resource. The example Worster uses is the U.S.’s western ranching industry during the late 19th century, which boomed for a brief period but then quickly collapsed. Its demise was due to ranchers, not caring about public land they weren’t responsible for, overgrazing their cattle herds. This overgrazing had a domino effect, decimating the vegetation needed for the livestock to survive, which led to the death of much of the livestock. Worster adds that the ranching…

the past. Land is taught to be vast, but in reality, little to that thought is true. Instead land is very limited and must be used wisely. Food shortage have played a key role in the down of many empires. Currently more than one hundred million acres of land that otherwise could be used for farming, cannot be used. This is the result of over farming. Currently in places such as Kenya, yield of crops have gown down due to land degradation. Many areas in Africa rely on food from land that is…