Band 6+: The chart below shows the main reasons why agricultural land becomes less productive in three regions of the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram illustrates the root causes for agricultural area in three different parts of the world being ineffective.

As can be seen, Europe’s land is affected by almost every factors presented, while North America’s land is less deteriorated by these and Oceania shows the highest and lowest point of the reasons for the areas to get affected.

Now, turning to details, more than 10% of Oceania’s surface is degraded as the effect of over-grazing whereas over-cultivation has no role at this at all. Deforestation is one of the main cause for the land degradation in Europe which is almost 10%, followed by over-cultivation and other which account for almost 8%. Over-grazing is at 4th but still accounts for more than 5% which is the still the higest in every category compared to North America.

The effects on land due to overgrazing in North America is almost as same as deforestation in Oceania that is around 2%. A tiny fraction of North America’s land is degraded by deforestation and other factors showing that over-cultivation is the main cause for it that is around 3% of land.