Land degradation, is it a problem?

You might be wondering what even is land degradation? Well so was I until I found out it is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land. Land degradation is a huge factor in our world that tend to not be talked about as much as it should be. So far globally the land is 25% degraded and if this trend continues 95% of the land can end up this way by 2050. Also globally about 3.2 billion people are affected by this, especially our farmers. Land degradation affects our soils carbon and nitrous oxide is released into the atmosphere, making land degradation one of the biggest factors to climate change. Read more about it and what we can do to help in the article below. 



Land degradation as a threat to food security and a push factor for migration


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Comments

  1. Riley BurnsSeptember 20, 2021 at 5:32 PM

    Love this blog post! I wasn’t familiar with land degradation before reading. The facts and percentages listed give great support to what you wrote.

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  2. Carson knowlesSeptember 21, 2021 at 9:49 AM

    I can agree with Riley here I had no idea about this. This article really helped me better understand that and just pointed out a lot of stuff I did not know!

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  3. Kaitlyn “KK” KongdaraSeptember 23, 2021 at 7:04 PM

    The article helped me a lot on land degradation since I have only a little but of knowledge on the subject. The percentages and facts was kind of an eye opener to me.

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  4. Rayane BaiticheSeptember 25, 2021 at 1:57 PM

    I like your blog, I have the same topic and I found the same article. So I understand all what you say and it is truly cool.

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