Why is it important to protect land from degradation?

Humans affect land degradation in the following manner:

• Unsustainable agricultural practices that cause soil erosion and overgrazing leads to depletion of soil nutrients

• Mismanagement of livestock further deteriorates the quality of land

• Industrial pollution severely damages the land making it unfit for human habitation.

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• UPSC Environment and Ecology Questions
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• UPSC Environment and Ecology

Land degradation has important implications for human society as a whole because it will affect agriculture productivity, food security and human habitation.

As of late, 4% of the world’s agricultural land has been seriously degraded. Further degradation will have dire implications on the human race. Therefore it is all the more important to protect land from degradation.

For more relevant articles refer to the links given below:

• UPSC Environment and Ecology Questions
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• UPSC Environment and Ecology